EW sets standard for fact checking
The cover story of this week’s Eugene Weekly is about Oregon’s booming wine industry reaching into the Southern Willamette Valley. The article contains numerous stats and number-crunching. For the brief history section of the article, Lance Sparks does some crack reporting.
“A Wikipedia entry traces the pace of that growth: By 1970, we had five bonded wineries and 35 acres…”
Yes, the Weekly used Wikipedia as a source, and admitted doing it. I will let you judge for yourself.
