"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn’t come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up. It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."
-- Shane Fitzgerald, who, upon the death of the french composer, placed a made-up a quote on Wikipedia - that was immediately relayed around the world by the media without question - proving once again (as if we needed a reminder after the Barack Obama/John Edwards fiasco of the last election) there is no "media watchdog" but a bunch of trained parrots incapable of independent thought, unlike at Little Green Footballs.
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