Politicians and their staffers editing out the bad stuff on Wikipedia

I was listening to NPR's Day to Day and heard a fabulous story about people coming from various senate.gov and house.gov IP addresses and editing varying Representative and Senator's entries on Wikipedia - mostly cleaning up "bad" stuff and adding glowing spin. I'm embarassed to say the investigation was kicked off by MA Representative Marty Meehan's entry, (my Rep is John Tierney who rocks), but it's exposed an incredible amount of such editing through the Legislative branch. Apparently Wikipedia has banned the IP range but that won't stop people going through a proxy. However, I think that that people will be watching the entries more closely.

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