Is wikipedia accurate about instruments of the chinese government?
June 24, 2005 3:33 AM   Subscribe

How accurate is this wikipedia article on China's state-run news agency?
posted by Tlogmer to Society & Culture (4 answers total)
 
According to the article history, lot of the information is added from a "CIA website", probably this one.
posted by Gyan at 4:23 AM on June 24, 2005


What part of it do you question? It's pretty typical for a communist information service.
posted by loquax at 10:18 AM on June 24, 2005


Response by poster: Only a few phrases stuck out at me -- "among the premier world news agencies." -- "employs more than 10,000 people, as compared to about 1,300 for Reuters" -- etc. It just occured to me that wikipedia is succeptible to organized manipulation by gov. employees (not succeptible to disorganized manipulation by individuals).
posted by Tlogmer at 4:52 PM on June 24, 2005


Response by poster: Oh. OK. Now that I've burrowed through the history, those claims are apparently from the CIA report you mentioned. Nevermind.
posted by Tlogmer at 5:00 PM on June 24, 2005


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