McCainpedia? May 22, 2008
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DEMS NOT DIGGING ON STRAIGHT TALKER
By Mande Wilkes
FITSNews - May 22, 2008 - Apparently unsatisfied with the major Republican tush they’re kicking this election cycle, Democrats today launched a website devoted entirely to the vilification of John McCain.
Entitled “McCainpedia,” the site bills itself as “a wiki run by the DNC’s Research, Communications, and Internet teams … to centralize research material, allowing the general public to use it as they see fit.”
Notwithstanding the painful grammatical disagreement there, that’s a pretty good message - if it were actually true.
Despite playing off the Wikipedia moniker, and despite labeling itself a wiki (i.e. a website that allows its readers to modify, update and amend content), McCainpedia is anything but.
Explains the site:
“Unlike some wikis, McCainpedia is read-only and can’t be edited by the public. This allows us to fully validate all of the information that appears, ensuring accuracy and reliability.”
Well, yeah, accuracy is a virtuous standard and all, but a ‘read-only’ site can hardly be described as a “wiki.” Those are by definition participatory, hence their surge in recent popularity.
Frankly, we find this lack of transparency laughable, especially coming from a site whose raison d’etre is exposing McCain’s lack of transparency.
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