Submission + - Wall Street Meltdown, Wikipedia Conspiracy 2
PatrickByrne writes: "This is TheRegister.com's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ("naked short selling") and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. They explicitly and formally accuse a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and expose the complicity of The Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales).
This is not another story about a 15 year old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented. As one commenter wrote, "There's shit. And then there's heavy shit."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/"
