Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 391
You can check the edit history, as you yourself have done in this case, to see how recently and how often the article in question has been edited. As for figuring out which version is more "correct", that's what the citations are there for. Follow the citations and see which ones seem more reliable.
Yes, it's a few extra clicks and a bit more research than simply reading the current version of the article and taking whatever it says as faith. But we're talking about journalists here. It's their job to do a bit more research. If they're not willing to do their job properly I'd say that's a problem for their editors to deal with, not Wikipedia's. Wikipedia provides everything they should need.