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=== CNN interview ===

=== CNN interview ===

On December 5, 2005, Wikipedia founder [[Jimbo Wales]] and Seigenthaler appeared on [[CNN]]. An exchange between CNN moderator [[Kyra Phillips]] and Wales went like this:

On December 5, 2005 Wales and Seigenthaler appeared on [[CNN]]. An exchange between CNN moderator [[Kyra Phillips]] and Wales went like this:

{{Cquote|PHILLIPS:...I ran my name. I was shocked to see what was under my name. I was pretty disappointed. I saw that my bio was on there, which of course comes from CNN. But then there was stuff about how liberals -- I'm accused by liberals of showing right-wing bias, and then it links onto other blogs with a bias, and I look like a right-wing commie, if you were to look at my name on this Wikipedia site. And I'm telling you right now, Jimmy, that's not how I want people to see me and understand me. And what I'm about and what I write about in my interviews, et cetera. So, you know, it's not just individuals like John, but me and many other people, that just have concerns that this is creating gossip that can be very harmful. And people go to these sites thinking that this is the truth.}}

{{Cquote|PHILLIPS:...I ran my name. I was shocked to see what was under my name. ...I'm telling you right now, Jimmy, that's not how I want people to see me and understand me. And what I'm about and what I write about in my interviews, et cetera. So, you know, it's not just individuals like John, but me and many other people, that just have concerns that this is creating gossip that can be very harmful. And people go to these sites thinking that this is the truth.}}

{{Cquote|WALES: Well, I mean, I think the real key is that the site matures over time, the -- all of the articles are edited over and over and over, and improved. Anyone's free to contribute. You're free to go and contribute.}}

{{Cquote|WALES: Well, I mean, I think the real key is that the site matures over time, the -- all of the articles are edited over and over and over, and improved. Anyone's free to contribute. You're free to go and contribute.}}

This in fact is not the case.  Phillips was not free to answer, and/or remove the objectionable content within her biographical entry, as Mr. Daniel Brandt at that exact moment was discovering.  Not four days earlier, Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine regarding Brandt's objections to a false Wikipedia biography about him, "I find it hard to take him very seriously at all," and libelous slanders remained in Brandt's biography from nearly a year and half.

This in fact is not the case.  Phillips was not free to answer, and/or remove the objectionable content within objectionable content in her biographical entry, as Daniel Brandt at that exact moment was discovering.  Not four days prior, Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine regarding Brandt's objections to a false Wikipedia biography about him, "I find it hard to take him very seriously at all," and libelous slanders remained in Brandt's biography for a year and half. Wales stated, "we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns," however there are still cases of persons who have notified the WikiMedia Foundation about false and libelous material on Wikipedia webservers accessible to Google Search Engines which have been ignored.

Wales alleged that, "we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns," however there are still cases of persons who have notified the WikiMedia Foundation about false and libelous material on Wikipedia webservers accessible to Google Search Engines which have been ignored.

Seigenthaler stated "with accountability comes credilbility" and expressed the fear that, "I'm afraid we're going to get regulated media as a result of that. And I tell you, I think if you can't fix it, both fix the history as well as the biography pages, I think it's going to be in real trouble, and we're going to have to be fighting to keep the government from regulating you."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html</ref>

On December 9, Seigenthaler appeared on C-SPAN's ''Washington Journal'' with Brian Lamb and expressed concern that members of Congress or other powerful figures in government may likewise be targeted.  On November 2, 2006, days before the mid-term Congressional elections, an anonymous IP address which traces to the ''[[New York Times]]'' changed the wording of [[U.S. House of Representatives]] [[Majority Leader]] [[Tom DeLay]]'s Wikipedia biographical entry from "a prominent member of the [[Republican Party]]" to "Grand Dragon of the Republican Party."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_DeLay&diff=prev&oldid=85320018 Wikipedia/Tom DeLay, Revision as of 20:19, 2 November 2006, IP 199.181.174.146]</ref><ref>[http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=New+York+Times&location= WikiScanner]</ref>

 

On December 9, Seigenthaler appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal with Brian Lamb. Seigenthaler expressed concern that members of Congress or other powerful figures in government may likewise be targeted.  On November 2, 2006, only days before the mid-term Congressional elections, an anonymous IP address which traces to the ''[[New York Times]]'' changed the wording of [[U.S. House of Representatives]] [[Majority Leader]] [[Tom DeLay]]'s biographical entry from "a prominent member of the [[Republican Party]]" to "Grand Dragon of the Republican Party."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_DeLay&diff=prev&oldid=85320018 Wikipedia/Tom DeLay, Revision as of 20:19, 2 November 2006, IP 199.181.174.146]</ref><ref>[http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=New+York+Times&location= WikiScanner]</ref>

=== Essjay given oversight ===

=== Essjay given oversight ===