{"id":652,"date":"2006-05-08T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2006-05-08T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T07:10:42","slug":"wikipedia_mainstream_media_sig_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/wikipedia_mainstream_media_sig_1\/","title":{"rendered":"wikipedia &#8212; mainstream media sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his op-ed piece today, NY Times columnist, Paul Krugman, quotes from the Wikipedia to define conspiracy theory: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A conspiracy theory, says Wikipedia, &#8220;attempts to explain the cause of an event as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen the Wikipedia used as an authoritative reference in the Times or any other major media outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his op-ed piece today, NY Times columnist, Paul Krugman, quotes from the Wikipedia to define conspiracy theory: A conspiracy theory, says Wikipedia, &#8220;attempts to explain the cause of an event as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance.&#8221; This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen the Wikipedia used as an authoritative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,967,1021,1155,1296,2016],"tags":[3063],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authority","category-journalism","category-krugman","category-media","category-newyorktimes","category-wikipedia","tag-wikipedia-krugman-newyorktimes-media-journalism-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}