The Twisting of the Truth - Wikipedia is Spun

One of the best things about the phenomena that is the Internet are sites like Wikipedia.org.
An amazing 'Encyclopedia' of the web, it depends on the Internet's millions of users and contributors to collect, categorize, organize and publish information. Generally self-policed, and governed by a set of rules that contributors follow; articles are vetted by providing referenced sources, and the peer review of other contributors both for form and content. It's really an amazing place to do research on just about any subject or person you can think of.

It is however, sad to see even a great resource like Wikipedia being 'spun' by the Republican technocrats. One only has to look at the bio of Sarah Palin. In the few days since being nominated by John McCain there have been many hundreds of edits to her biographical article. Granted, all of the intense interest is going to generate updates with further details to her 'Wiki', but when you actually look at the edits, and the hundreds of discussion thread entries associated with the article it becomes clear that a LOT of the edits are about removing, 'clarifying', and modifying the content of the existing article, not about adding new, further details.

The battle rages; turning the Wiki into the latest political talking point, campaign spin rag, instrument of politically motivated 'correctness'; cleansed of important, interesting information.
Sure, there are those that fight to keep all the information in the Wiki, and to be fair, there are comments and additions that get added that should be removed for lack of proper reference or obvious bias, but there is an obvious effort being made by some to 'clean up' the data, so it reads better for their newest VP candidate.

It's a sad day, and I can only hope that the structure that is Wikipedia will eventually survive the onslaught, and not become just another 'news' outlet or political mouthpiece for the spin doctors, no matter what their bent.