“These statistics,” I said, “Where did you get them?” The writing was solid and everything made sense, but there was no source attribution.
It was 2005. We’ve just gotten serious staff for the first time. The writer was a fresh faced woman from Texas, who, by the way, possessed serious brains and a dangerous wit. She answers me confidently.
“Wikipedia.”
“The open source online encyclopedia?,” I asked. Wikipedia was only four years old and notoriously inaccurate. I wanted sources as close to the information as we could get.
Dispatches From The Front 