Why the media can't get Wikipedia right

"When the mainstream media addressed the John Seigenthaler Sr affair — he's the respected journalist who wrote an op-ed in USAToday complaining that slanderously wrong information about him was in Wikipedia for four months — the subtext couldn't be clearer: The media were implicitly contrasting Wikipedia's credibility to their own. Ironically, the some of the media got the story fundamentally wrong, in tone and sometimes in substance," writes David Weinberger on his JOHO blog.