Wikipedia is again the best media

No newspaper or television channel can attract thousands of editors and reporters to collect information on one topic. This is only possible on the Internet. As in the case of the loudest terrorist attacks and natural disasters of the past years, Wikipedia again provided the most complete coverage of the event that shook the world. This is a massacre at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.



The corresponding Wikipedia page contains absolutely complete information about what happened on April 16, 2007: detailed chronologies of events , resistance to the killer, Korean psychology, consequences of the slaughter, reactions from the institute, students, relatives, US and Korean governments, historical context, links to videos and more. The page is instantly updated as new facts become known. The number of information sources for an encyclopedic article has already exceeded one hundred.

Several auxiliary articles have already appeared on Wikipedia: the killer’s biography , the list of victims, and the list of official media errors in articles about the massacre at the University of Virginia. Although the last article is a note that its objectivity is the subject of discussion, but the fact of the existence of such an article is very symbolic.
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Wikipedia again confounded skeptics and proved that it is the most complete and reliable source of information about current events.

via New York Times