Comments on: Mainichi clueless about internet – runs article blaming Wikipedia user for murders

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: Mainichi’s Wikipedia Slip-up

Global Voices Online » Japan: Mainichi’s Wikipedia Slip-up — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:21:08 +0000

[...] where a Wikipedia contributor (”Popons”) was erroneously identified [en] as involved in the attempted murder [en] of Kenji Yoshihara, wife of former vice health [...]

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By: ST

ST — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:02:53 +0000

A couple of things: 1) WTF is the Mainichi doing reporting stuff in Wikipedia as fact?

2) I’m surprised you’ve giving Popons the benefit of the doubt when this person got the entire story factually wrong (that’s more egg on the Mainichi’s face). Have you considered that Popons may be an idiot or have some kind of beef with the government?

3) That the morning TV shows didn’t check the facts is a given. They are not hard news programs. All of them have a newspaper corner where they review the morning headlines, but that’s the extent of the corner. None of the presenters are reporters or smart enough to fact check newspapers before airing the front pages.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:32 +0000

Probably the strangest part of this story is that Popons doesn’t have his own Wikipedia entry yet.

By: NPC

NPC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:22:09 +0000

You kidding? I would LOVE to be “Popons” right now, with my wiki name all over the place. I would want a copy of that article! Frame it, and hang it on my wall. lol

By: doinkies

doinkies — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:37:02 +0000

Yeah, I think that this will just make 2chers and others more anti-Mainichi. Many were already anti-Mainichi before the WaiWai thing and the way Mainichi handled that did not help at all. Now that they’ve doinked up again with this, I’m sure that there will be more backlash against Mainichi.

By: helical

helical — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:23:19 +0000

Gah, my horrible writing is a full post!
I’d like to thank James for cleaning up the little mistakes, but I would have written it a bit more carefully if I knew it was going to be featured as a Japan Probe article

By: KYPMbangi

KYPMbangi — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:34 +0000

LOL. That Popons guy must have had some fright

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:38:44 +0000

I like the tiny ? at the end of the headline! That’s like the evening sports papers with their enormous half-page two kanji headline and a tiny か hidden somewhere inside the second kanji.

I wonder if Popons can sue the Mainichi for something? Sounds like the Mainichi was too keen to get back at the interwebs after the WaiWai fiasco.