Wikipedia's co-founder, Jimmy Wales, has set out his intention to break the monopoly held by ‘Newsbiscuit’ on dubious facts, inept spelling and spurious tax returns. Mr. Wales hopes that Wikitribune will become the online news-provider of choice for plagiarizing students and cheating pub quiz teams.
Unlike Newsbiscuit, Wikitribune will be ad-free; leaving many readers concerned as to where to find reliable penis enlargement firms? They will not be using the tried and tested ‘John O'Farrell model’, whereby you do not pay your reporters – in the hope that journalistic integrity is maintained through malnutrition, sleeping rough and selling blood.
Even if you try to counteract bad journalism, you will inevitably descend into gossip about celebrity sex tapes and Isle of Wight trivia. Mused one Newsbiscuit staff writer: ‘Give an infinite number monkeys, an infinite number of typewriters and you’re probably going to upset the delicate eco-system that those monkeys inhabit’.
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