Wikipedia Bias

New York Times reporter David Rohde was kidnapped last year in Afghanistan and, in order not to raise his value to his captors, the NYT was able to get other news organizations to keep the news secret. Another source that agreed to keep it secret was Wikipedia (link).

Valerie Jarrett is a close advisor to Barack Obama who's now part of his administration. Her Wikipedia entry is miraculously missing any negative information on her, despite a few attempts to put some of it in. The entry also fails to note her role in the alleged attempts by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama.

[NOTE: This entry was originally posted as a comment by user Chris Johnson on 08/27/2008. This site has no knowledge of this issue and hasn't verified any of the claims.]

Hare Krishna/ISKCON Domination on Wikipedia Hindu articles

[NOTE: This entry was originally posted as a comment by user chipdouglas on 05/15/2008. This site has no knowledge of Medved except as a NAU denier and hasn't verified any of the claims.]

Specious "Criticism" Sections

Two things:

(1) How does one make their own post? I don't necessarily need to do it myself, but it would be helpful if the following could be addressed:

The three month old NAFTA Superhighway article is very brief and doesn't give an accurate overview of the topic. It doesn't fully address the controversy surrounding the topic, with mostly alternative media sources presenting evidence that it exists (or a larger version is planned) and with the mainstream media presenting cookie cutter articles designed to "debunk" claims made by the alternative media.

The article "Wikipedia's zealots" from Lawrence Solomon of the Financial Post (link) details issues with the WP article about University of California San Diego professor Naomi Oreskes, who wrote a paper claiming that there was wide consensus about global warming. The paper was challenged by UK scientist Benny Peiser:

The World Heritage Site entry contains absolutely no negative or contrary information of any kind and lends the false impression that that United Nations program is completely uncontroversial. Yet, it does have its detractors and it is controversial in some quarters. Any information on controversies surrounding the program has been missing from the entry for over six months.

From "Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts" (link):

Certainly, not all the bias at WP is explicitly liberal. Some of it just redounds to the benefit of those with liberal-friendly policies, such as former Congressman and former DHS Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, a Republican and a failed candidate for governor of Arkansas. The only noteworthy incident that occured during his DHS career has had a very hard time sticking in his WP biography.

The "External links" section contains an extensive list of "Air America fan sites", but the "Air America critics" section has alternated between not being there at all and having one or two links. My site BoreAmerica.com has been deleted on at least two occasions, as has radioequalizer.blogspot.com. Getting the first site listed in the first place was quite a battle.