WIkipedia as a journalism source

After the recent death of composer Maurice Jarre, an Irish student posted a corny but poetic quote on Wikipedia. Scrambling journalists lifted it as a reliable attribution.

Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote-

"I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. -Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer