Exclusives : Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikipedia by Order of Schori
Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikipedia by Order of Schori
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
5/23/2007
The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori allegedly ordered all references to a sex scandal surrounding Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison to be removed from Wikipedia, the widely read online encyclopedia. The ultra-liberal bishop faces both an ecclesiastical presentment and civil fraud charges.
In a clear attempt to downplay Bennison's role in the cover-up of a 14-year girl who was sexually abused by his brother, the Rev. John Bennison, Barbara Alton, Bennison's personal assistant, claims she was told by Mrs. Schori to remove the sexually explicit references to the bishop's cover up.
John Bennison was forced from his parish and resigned from The Episcopal Church when sexual allegations emerged in the Diocese of California. He avoided prosecution because of the Statute of Limitations. At the time of the abuse, he was sharing a home with his brother Charles.
The scandal came to Philadelphia when family members of the abused girl presented their case in a series of town hall type meetings around the diocese. The sex abuse scandal eventually found its way into the widely read on line encyclopedia.
People searching for "Charles Bennison" on google.com are immediately confronted with a very exhaustive section on the scandal. The first thing to come up is a history of the sex scandal, which apparently caught the attention of the Presiding Bishop's office.
Here is an example: "Exec Asst to Bishop Bennison again deleted inflammatory and libelous text. 17:26, 21 May 2007 Barbaraalton External Links - The links about scandals must be deleted per order of the Presiding Bishop in her address to ECCP in New York available on podcast. She requires us to focus on the mission of the church."
Alton then removed all the references, many of them related to VirtueOnline stories about the bishop's behavior.
Alton did not return a phone call to her office, but according to Wikipedia, Alton claims she is removing the comments "by order of the Presiding Bishop!"
VirtueOnline sent the Wikipedia sections to Mrs. Schori, but has not received a response. Click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Bennison&action=history
The request to delete various entries regarding Bennison and the sex scandal go back to November 2006 and take up several pages in Wikipedia.
In a report on the Cathedral Campus Development in the center of "Philadelphia, which Bennison labeled as "absolutely confidential", he said developers and local politicians are being approached to investigate changing zoning laws in order to develop a "scheme" that will allow a high rise to be built on diocesan property surrounding the cathedral area.
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| badcat | Posted: 2007/5/23 21:00 Updated: 2007/5/23 21:00 |
Home away from home   Joined: 2006/9/27 From: olympic peninsula Posts: 175 |
 Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip...Well, what do we expect from the "Ministry of Truth"!!!!! And there is so much more to come.
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| daveball | Posted: 2007/5/23 21:32 Updated: 2007/5/23 21:32 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/12/18 From: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 2377 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... This is "Inclusivity" the TEC way - I'll include what fits my agenda and exclude the rest of reality.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/5/23 22:01 Updated: 2007/5/23 22:01 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6862 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... WOW! Talk about shutting the barn door after the horse has fled!
It's a tad bit late, isn't it, Katie? Cennydd |
| warmac9999 | Posted: 2007/5/23 22:32 Updated: 2007/5/23 22:32 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/2/16 From: Posts: 1463 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Hey, KJS is just taking a page out of the homosexual handbook. The GLAAD's have been complaining about negative references to homosexuality in regular dictionaries, thesaurus, and encyclopedias - and the writers are just removing the references. If you want an honest dictionary you need to get one that is about 50 years old.
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| Fisherman | Posted: 2007/5/23 23:08 Updated: 2007/5/23 23:08 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2006/8/25 From: Dallas - Province of the Southern Cone, DoFW Posts: 675 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... If any of you networking gurus take several IP addresses (74.8.75.34 e.g.) and run them through WHOIS or ARIN you'll find a law firm right in there with the deletion armada.
Looking at the edits a few minutes ago, there seems to be a war going on :) Rather interesting. |
| cjconner | Posted: 2007/5/23 23:25 Updated: 2007/5/23 23:25 |
Quite a regular   Joined: 2007/5/14 From: Saint Paul Minnesota Posts: 53 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... These folks operate like the thought police mafia, not the Church. How despicable that they would want to add salt to the wound of clergy sexual abuse by making these deletions, thus complicitly and collectively compounding the head turning of Bennison. For Shame! - I'm not surprised, just perpetually outraged at such public sin.
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| Isaac | Posted: 2007/5/23 23:52 Updated: 2007/5/23 23:52 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/3/1 From: Texas Posts: 628 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... And, of course, KJS wants to do to the Holy Bible what she did to Wikipedia.
Isaac |
| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:08 Updated: 2007/5/24 0:08 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6862 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Fisherman, it wouldn't surprise me if DBB has something to do with that law firm.
Cennydd |
| Anonymous | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:11 Updated: 2007/5/24 0:11 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... I just looked at Wikipedia, and there is a whole section called the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal...
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:15 Updated: 2007/5/24 0:15 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6862 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... And it's a doozie!
Cennydd |
| CityTroope | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:50 Updated: 2007/5/24 0:50 |
Home away from home Joined: 2004/12/2 From: Rosemont, PA Posts: 159 |
Can Anyone say "1984" It is a little late, but here it is; 1984!
They can change the meaning of any term they want. Marriage, Christianity, pick one When history is no longer convienent, let’s just change it to make sure it matches what we think it should be. |
| CityTroope | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:53 Updated: 2007/5/24 0:53 |
Home away from home Joined: 2004/12/2 From: Rosemont, PA Posts: 159 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... The section was put back. Go to the link showing the history of changes.
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| Causidicus | Posted: 2007/5/24 0:56 Updated: 2007/5/24 1:01 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/7/3 From: Posts: 1094 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Re: KJS and her hired legal guns: Tyrants are ever the same. Employ intimidators. Hide the unpleasant truth. Threaten the vocal opposition. Oppose free speech. Above all: censor, censor, censor.
Every day it gets harder and harder to read or hear the word "Episcopalian" without sensing a hissing noise in the background. Lord, have mercy. C |
| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/5/24 2:37 Updated: 2007/5/24 2:37 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Just when you think the old boy network (old boy and girl network) has succeeded in shoving this under the bed again, some IDIOT at Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein and Cohen decides to bring it up again.
Richard Nixon is alive and well in the Episcopal Church. |
| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/5/24 2:40 Updated: 2007/5/24 2:40 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2006/5/11 From: Posts: 72 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Someone needs to add this censorship to the wikipedia entry...
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| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/5/24 2:50 Updated: 2007/5/30 1:12 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2006/5/11 From: Posts: 72 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... The thing is, why would lawyers at a Patent, Trademark, and Copyright law firm give a **** about the Bennisons? Protecting Bennison is not the firm's business. I have to think this is someone who works there who is a loyal Bennison acolyte. If this is the case, that person will soon be out on the street.
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| parallax | Posted: 2007/5/24 3:13 Updated: 2007/5/24 3:29 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... The IP Fisherman mentions does appear to be that of Caesar Rivise in Philadelphia:
Whois IP 74.8.75.34 I was under the impression that Bennison was represented by Drinker Biddle & Reath. I wonder what this means, especially since Drinker Biddle has lawyers who specialise in the types of cases Caesar Rivise handles. I find it true to form that Bennison's office would respond to allegations of a cover-up by attempting to cover up the allegations of the cover-up. (!) The Schori angle has a lot of implications. If Schori did order the information to be removed, this is a serious scandal for the entire church. If Schori did not order the information to be removed, the Bishop's office will have to answer to her for invoking her authority falsely. To say nothing of the fact that this is another chapter in a cover-up that has been going on since the late 1970's. Either way this is bad news for Bennison's credibility and potentially disastrous for it. |
| cjconner | Posted: 2007/5/24 3:38 Updated: 2007/5/30 1:12 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Quote:
why would lawyers at a Patent, Trademark, and Copyright law firm give a **** about the Bennisons? A significant part of trademark/namebrand law includes data mining and damage control, etc., to protect the value of the trademark/namebrand. I wouldn't be surprised if the appearance of this particular firm on wikipedia has more to do with a mandate of the national office than with Bennison. Actually, IMO this is a strategy of desparation, and may indicate a focus on Trademark protection now as TEC moves to inevitable expulsion from the Anglican Communion. Or on the other side of the coin, it is an indication that the leadership has decided that there will be no change of course before next fall and are working a strategy to limit their losses as well as damage to the brand name. all specualtion on my part of course. |
| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/5/24 3:43 Updated: 2007/5/24 3:43 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... I agree, it is definitely desperation. If it makes you all feel any better, my mom (the mother of the 14 year old victim) was NOT going to speak at the Philadelphia forums until ol' Chuck opened up his big trap to the Philadelphia newspapers and said "it is all about power and money".
If Chuck keeps it up, maybe next time my sister will even speak up, on Dateline, 60 minutes, Oprah, whatever. |
| gregory | Posted: 2007/5/24 11:21 Updated: 2007/5/24 11:21 |
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| Irmgard | Posted: 2007/5/24 12:11 Updated: 2007/5/24 12:11 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... That's not the first time someone tries to remove information he/she doesn't like from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has even rules about such cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI and the Wikipedia administrators do have routine in pushing these rules through.
For Wikipedia, a neutral point of view is non negotiable: this means in such a case that all relevant information is contained in the article and correctly attributed to its source, so the reader can make up his mind himself - TEC's view will sure also be included but labeled as TEC's view. Removal of information is only accepted in Wikipedia, if there is no reliable source for it. The point is not, if XYZ is proved beyond doubt by an international court at highest level, the point is, if Episcopal News Service actually wrote that the Standing Committee did state XYZ and the link to that information is given as source. See also how Wikipedians discuss this issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Bennison |
| Laytone | Posted: 2007/5/24 12:11 Updated: 2007/5/24 12:11 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2004/5/21 From: Brewton, Alabama Posts: 90 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... While reading this, as the latest account of apostacies and crimes, all I could feel was empathy for the 14 year old girl. How does she and her family feel about the clergy's arrogance of parading around in cloaks of sin.
I have two daughters myself and I can assure you his moving cross country would not allow him any form of sactuary from the crime. As for presiding bishop KJS . . . You can whitewash a mud fence . . . but eventually the rain will come. |
| Wilhelm | Posted: 2007/5/24 12:14 Updated: 2007/5/24 12:15 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2006/6/19 From: The Colonies Posts: 172 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... This is outrageous. Ms. Schori is not only a "genuine Phony", but an inept fool in the bargain. It's little wonder she has behaved so stupidly.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/5/24 12:46 Updated: 2007/5/24 12:46 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6862 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... In my view, Schori has been irreparably damaged by doing this, and her stupidity and arrogance have made the situation worse. She certainly hasn't helped Bennison's case; if anything, she's made it impossible for his lawyers to mount a solid case in his defense....and I'm not a lawyer!
I think she's just torpedoed any chance that he'll beat the rap! Cennydd |
| bjoyfull | Posted: 2007/5/24 12:49 Updated: 2007/5/24 12:55 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2006/3/29 From: Posts: 80 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... I just checked the discussion board regarding the Bennison entries and it is clear to most of the posters/editors that it was targeted for "cleansing" of verified information. There was also this comment posted to +Chuck's Ex. Asst.:
"Please be advised that your proximity to the subject suggests the possibility of a conflict of interest, and Wikipedia guidelines advise editors to "avoid, or exercise great caution when [e]diting articles related to you [or] your organization." The rationale you have offered for the removals thus far -- eg. "links about scandals must be deleted per order of the Presiding Bishop" -- have no bearing on whether content should be removed from Wikipedia, as Wikipedia content does not fall under the purview of the bishop. Thank you." --Rrburke(talk) 20:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC) If ++KJS did indeed authorize this she sure has stepped into a whole bunch of shalom. |
| ctowles | Posted: 2007/5/24 13:04 Updated: 2007/5/24 13:04 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/12/4 From: Posts: 498 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Schori now becomes an enabler. Further investigation will reveal whether she is a co conspirator and/or accomplice. How does one explain this to one's children, or more to the point how does she explain this to someone who she is counseling for this type of trama. Perhaps, "he was a good man that did a bad thing and our duty as Christians is to forgive even before all the evidence is in. This coverup is different from his coverup in a number of ways. I'm a girl and he is a boy...."
Imagine how the attorney suing TEC will characterize it as he asks for triple damages showing that coverup is standard operating procedure from the top down. Boy, would I like a piece of that action (no pun intended). |
| Wilhelm | Posted: 2007/5/24 14:06 Updated: 2007/5/25 11:48 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/6/19 From: The Colonies Posts: 172 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Let's not forget that "++" Swing is mixed up in all of this too. He sponsored and covered for Bennison Minor until very recently when it became untenable. Smacks of conspiracy and hole in the wall. The whole thing stinks.
Justice should be demanded for the lot. Perhaps a grand jury. Criminal and Civil Liabilities en masse. This isn't cricket. We demand fair play. Statute of limitations for high crimes indeed. I don't believe it. Haven't old catholic priests been incarcerated for crimes committed many years back? Visiting Wikipedia, I noticed that the Philly Inquirer article mentioned that "++" Bennison Major had the audacity to state that "back in the seventies they were unaware of the grave harm caused by molesting children". In other words - ignorance of "contemporary social Science" absolves us of our responsibility. Does anyone really believe that back in the seventies tying up a 14 year old girl (somebody's daughter) and having one's filthy way with her was harmless somehow - or excusable behavior - rather than a loathsome crime comitted by a vile individual? Alright, why then all the great lengths to demonstrate contrition for slavery, exhaustive studies, motions, discussions of a near globally accepted practice in those times, that was abolished in the 1860s by the western world and "genuine" consideration for reparitions by the church and eventually the U.S Government and any collarable corporation that happened to exist during those times? TEC condemns itself. It's a dead game. TEC is transparent, corrupt and an enemy of Western Civilization. Their value as useful idiots may come to an end as we bring down the curtain on their sham. And now, the supreme stupidity of it's prepostorous leader in bungling attempts to cover it up or dismiss it! |
| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/5/24 14:34 Updated: 2007/5/24 14:37 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6862 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Wilhelm, can you imagine the reaction of the Primates on receiving this news? Does the word "fireworks" ring a bell? I wonder how Rowan Cantuar will receive this? Might it be enough so that he'll throw up his hands and say "to Hell with you, lady!?"
Cennydd |
| Wilhelm | Posted: 2007/5/24 14:41 Updated: 2007/5/24 14:41 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/6/19 From: The Colonies Posts: 172 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... The old Bargee has known it all along. He's nursing a dead horse. This dog will not hunt....
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| bjoyfull | Posted: 2007/5/24 15:16 Updated: 2007/5/24 15:20 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Cennydd -
+++Rowan won't throw his hands up at anything ++Kate does. She could be caught with a smoking gun standing over a body and he would still equivocate. "Maybe she was just holding it for the shooter." It's the money. Follow the money. The Yellow (Gold) Brick Road. |
| bcwright | Posted: 2007/5/24 16:59 Updated: 2007/5/24 17:06 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... As of 1:30 PM EDT the article still includes the accusations though the article's history shows that there has been a content war going on between the Wikipedia editors and the diocese. (If the diocese insists on this they may find that the article gets locked or even that their account(s) get blacklisted! - the Wiki editors do not take kindly to content wars).
Wikipedia will certainly allow (even encourage) deletion of unsupported accusations, especially those that are particularly scurrilous or defamatory. However Wikipedia is not a court of law, and if (for example) an accusation has been the subject of news or editorials in major media outlets (and I think that in this case the Philadelphia Enquirer certainly qualifies), then it's clearly fair game even if the story is later refuted - though the refutation would also be worthy of being included, of course. The citations in the article appear to link to another web site that is not connected with the Enquirer but it's a simple matter to go into the Enquirer's online archives and verify that the articles exist (and I have) - so there's at most a quibble about how the articles are referenced, not about their content. Unfortunately this is not the first time that prominent organizations or individuals have tried to dictate Wikipedia's content when it displeased them. Except for situations that are clearly libellous, they almost always lose - and lose face at the same time. It is however an excellent example of why Wikipedia is not necessarily a reliable source - anyone can edit it, and its content is very dynamic so that a citation of a Wikipedia article is a moving target that can be difficult to verify. Not to say that it isn't a useful resource, but it's more useful for getting an overview of a topic and for clues about where to go for more information rather than for the final word on anything. |
| Wilhelm | Posted: 2007/5/24 17:41 Updated: 2007/5/24 18:13 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/6/19 From: The Colonies Posts: 172 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... There's nothing new to "altering the truth", whitewashing, twisting events, obfuscating, engaging in "Orwellianesque editing, or any lengths that Soviet Stooges and their Bolshevik predessesors wouldn't go to further their idealogical ends to destroy Christianity and Western Civilization. It keeps coming and coming and coming back from the Book of Genesis. There seems to be no end of useful idiots to swallow and champion their bilge. Nor would TEC stop at any, either. This is a dangerous gang of villanous wolves posing as priests and Bishops, preying on the unsuspecting.
"Shalom" my foot, you repulsive barnacled hag. We know precisely what your "Shalom" means. Your behavior is mean, dishonest, misleading and ungodly. You are not one of Christ's Bishops, nor do you come in his name. You delude yourself to believe otherwise and insult us by thinking we'll buy any of your excrement to the contrary. |
| Baruch | Posted: 2007/5/24 18:13 Updated: 2007/5/24 18:13 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2005/10/15 From: Highlands Ranch, CO Posts: 119 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... I certainly hope our computer experts are hard at work correcting this Orwell attempt to make black into white or Lies into truth.
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| cjconner | Posted: 2007/5/24 22:05 Updated: 2007/5/24 22:05 |
Quite a regular Joined: 2007/5/14 From: Saint Paul Minnesota Posts: 53 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Quote:
If Chuck keeps it up, maybe next time my sister will even speak up, on Dateline, 60 minutes, Oprah, whatever. xEpiscopal, sorry to find out about what your family has been through. I still have a problem with the Wikipedia account of the events, the latest edit is posted by a GLBT activist and he refuses to separate the sex abuse issue from the financial issues, for whatever reason. The overall tenor of the newest edition is "politically correct" I agree, and just seems to make every excuse possible for Bennison. There are facts there, but it seems a bit inaccurate the way it is edited... not objective, but biased, just in a different direction. I'm not sure why the GLBTers like to bury the clergy sexual misconduct of Denominations that are also GLBT activists, but make sure that the headlines are loud and clear on the wikipedia entries concerning the Catholics. |
| Fisherman | Posted: 2007/5/24 23:54 Updated: 2007/5/24 23:54 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/8/25 From: Dallas - Province of the Southern Cone, DoFW Posts: 675 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Wikipedia can hardly be considered the most objective, peer-reviewed source of information on the Internet. Until recently credentials were not required to post and edit.
Even with credentials, there can be, and is, a considerable bias in the material. Many entries are informative but require caution in citing, particularly in scholarly circles (many professors will not accept a citation from Wikipedia). What is clear is that we have witnessed something beyond a bias that most informed readers will recognize. We have seen an overt attempt, fortunately with an audit trail, to shred the truth and potential sources of evidence. |
| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/5/25 1:55 Updated: 2007/5/25 1:55 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... It was hard for my family; as the brother, I was protected for many years from this evil.
My mother's statement at the november forums was just incredible, read that if you want to know how we dealt with it. The link is here. Mother of 14 year old victim's statement |
| bcwright | Posted: 2007/5/25 2:45 Updated: 2007/5/25 2:47 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... Even with credentials, there can be, and is, a considerable bias in the material. Many entries are informative but require caution in citing, particularly in scholarly circles (many professors will not accept a citation from Wikipedia).
It's not just the intentional bias. Just earlier this year I corrected a Wikipedia article where the previous editor had "corrected" a technical article which described a counterintuitive - in fact, rather surprising - result. He had "fixed" the article to describe the result as what you might naively expect if you didn't do (or know how to do) the math. I corrected his "fix" to explain why the unexpected result was in fact the correct one. The point is that this was in an area where there was no possibility of politics or similar types of bias; it was purely a technical article, and the previous editor just simply didn't understand. Even now the "credentials" that one needs to post or edit on Wikipedia are minimal at best - basically you need to be a warm body who knows how to type, preferably in complete sentences. (Administrators do require more vetting, however most articles are not written or edited by administrators). Because of the ease with which incorrect information can be injected into Wikipedia, and the potential difficulty in determining which edit of a dynamically changing article was the one cited, any professor who would allow using Wikipedia as a citation source for a paper on anything (other than perhaps the Wikipedia community itself) would have to have his head examined. Not that I think that Wikipedia is useless, just that it's not a reliable scholarly source for anything. Caveat emptor! |
| Wilhelm | Posted: 2007/5/25 3:56 Updated: 2007/5/25 11:43 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/6/19 From: The Colonies Posts: 172 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... It all gets worse when one considers the fate of our constitutionally protected free press. Since mainstream mass media has become a mechanism utilized by evil forces, and has largely destroyed the credibility of itself, through deliberate ommisions and reporting biases, in effect the "mainstream" free press has been destroyed. Ask yourself is Ann Nicole Smith and OJ Simpson coverage 24/7 by both Turner's CNN and Murdoch's FOX newsworthy, or a perversion of newsworthy and a travesty of its former self? If the media is highly untrustworthy, we have no free press!!! It took a concerted effort to effect this sorry state, not some bloody accident where the occassional few succumbed to temptation to either create the news rather than report it or simply sold themselves for a few pieces of silver.
We now have the Blogs and Virtueonline. Of course its caveat emptor, but Western Civilization beware too. These sources are highly vulnerable and will steadily be corrupted by the same evil forces through sabotage and further attempts to undermine them as well. Just as quickly as these forces put their hackers on it, you'll be able to find nothing they don't spoon feed you themselves. We need God's true word more now than ever before. It's all we can really trust. We can see what's happening to that in the Episcopal and other mainline protestant Churches. This is the Great War and it's only "the end of the beginning". |
| badcat | Posted: 2007/5/25 17:35 Updated: 2007/5/25 17:35 |
Home away from home Joined: 2006/9/27 From: olympic peninsula Posts: 175 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... And you are a soldier in the great war. I was thinking "where's Elijah when you need him?" Is it really up to little ol' us.?
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| JudyM | Posted: 2007/5/29 20:23 Updated: 2007/5/29 20:23 |
Just popping in Joined: 2007/5/29 From: Posts: 1 |
Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... First, my deepest condolences to my fellow orthodox Christians. I'm not Anglican, but as a Roman Catholic, I think I know what you're going through.
As an outsider to TEC, I may be missing something, but I don't understand why Bishop Schori thinks she has authority to silence a public site like Wikipedia. It seems like an over-the-top power plan, and based on similar acts by Catholic bishops, it has a high probability for getting more publicity than the Wikipedia entry would have if she had just ignored it. |
| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/6/4 22:08 Updated: 2007/6/4 22:08 |
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Re: Bennison's Sex Abuse Scandal Edited out of Wikip... June 2, someone named Barbara Alton, whom is either the Bishop's personal assistant or someone claiming to be her removed the naughty bits yet again.
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