Paper issues apology after hack uses Wikipedia as source

A JAPANESE NEWSPAPER issued an apology after one of its reporters used Wikipedia as a source for a lead story.

A senior reporter for the Shizuoka Shimbun used information from the Japanese Wiki in a story about former Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who died on 28 June.

The hack waxed lyrical about how Miyazawa had once ordered former Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gomyko to sit down during a heated debate over the disputed Kuril Islands in the 1970s. Turns out he'd lifted the tale from under the beaks of the wikiparrots.

This morning, the newspaper apologised for not revealing the source of the information.

Which is why he put it in his story, natch.

We thought a better anecdote about Kiichi Miyazawa was that President George H. W. Bush vomited into his lap during a state dinner on January 8, 1992.

Yum. µ

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