President David Palmer may have paved the way for a President Obama or Clinton, according to the "24" actor.

This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm posting it here for future reference. The Kent State example is particularly interesting.

"Essjay's great sin - the reason Wales ultimately sent him into exile - wasn't that he lied to the press but that he hoodwinked his fellow Wikipedians, that he used his fake credentials to get them to grant him deference in editing articles."

Sample questions from the proposed information literacy exam for prospective undergrads are available here. I find the questions rather strange.

Right-wing bloggers have suggested that the Israeli attack on a Lebanese ambulance was a hoax. While the bloggers stayed home and performed textual analysis on photographs, Human Rights Watch went to Lebanon and concluded there was an Israeli attack.

Subject area experts seem to find articles about their field more reliable than non-experts.

The recent series of "Doonesbury" comics depicts Alex Doonesbury locked out of an MIT media studies class, in spite of her passion for the subject. Henry Jenkins says the department has received calls over this issue.

"So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?" Thanks for articulating this, Mr. Steven Berlin Johnson; now let's move on to wikis and Wikipedia.

Here's a blog post that compares the fact-checking processes between mass-circulation magazines and Wikipedia. In my experience, fact-checking at trade magazines is not as stringent, and I understand that newspapers are similarly loose.

Wow, here's a newspaper editorial on WIkipedia that's actually pretty reasoned in its discussion of Wikipedia's accuracy and the Reuters story about the Ken Lay article.

This Associated Press story provides an overview of how political campaigns are tampering with the information in Wikipedia. Scroll down for a nice infographic about Wikipedia.

Longhorns, WebCams, and bad puns, oh my!

The Miami Herald runs a photograph of a high school student in a T-shirt that says "Mexico," just to have the image of a Mexican jumping a fence.

We're talking about war coverage in my TV class this week, and I might pass along this classic cartoon satrizing Laura Bush's literacy intiatives.

summary of Howard Kaloogian's photographic truthiness.

Too bad they're junky Cafe Press items. Pixels are fun.

Chip re-enacts an incident with his neighbors using "The Sims."

MTV to document "alternative spring break" action devoted to protesting the death penalty in Texas.

right-wing critique of war simulations that raises many good points.

I'm sure it's not news to anyone that reality shows are edited to create better stories, but it's interesting to see the issue treated in the mainstream media.