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March 26, 2008
I had all sorts of fun ideas for the WikiScanner project.В When I actually started to investigate them, however, I discovered that a lot of them would make good topics for later blog entries, or were just plain boring.В This soon became the theme for the project.В
Although he’s not really an orgainzation, I firstВ turned to an old favorite: George Wanker, er, Walker Bush.В Sadly, that was about as interesting as things got for our fearless leader.В Some random in Australia changing Walker to Wanker and someone else linking his page to “incontinence.”В Things were more dramatic the time his dog watched him choke on a pretzel.
In Ethics class, we watched a video called “Toxic Sludge is Good For You” (available on VHS), in which there was much talk of ExxonMobil’sВ PR blunders in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.В Since oilВ companies areВ inherently evil, I thought there might be some excitement brewingВ on its Wiki page.В The page wasВ much busier than the president’sВ and included edits by the subject (I guessВ GWB is too busyВ finding maps onВ В The GoogleВ В to edit his Wiki page).
My personal favorite was the Irving branch of the company’s removal of vandalism, under the “corporate divisions”В section:
Exxon Global Corporate Headquarters are located in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, whereby this bastard company markets products around the world under the brands of Exxon, Mobil, and Esso;В
was changed by Exxon to:
Exxon Global Corporate Headquarters are located in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, whereby this company markets products around the world under the brands of Exxon, Mobil, and Esso;
I thought there might be something juicy when I came across a U.S. Department of Labor edit.В Surely Elaine Chow herself, suffering from insomnia and tired ofВ Nick at Nite “FreshВ Prince of BelВ Air”В reruns,В inserted something about Exxon forcing its station employees to work overtime on Christmas.В Alas, no.В Some grammar-conscious hack in the DepartmentВ found it necessary to lowercase the reference to Exxon’sВ tiger logo and contribute toВ the DoL’s longstanding effort to reach out to the colorblind by pointing out thatВ Mobil’s Pegasus mascot isn’t just any old Pegasus.В It’s a red Pegasus.В
I really didn’t find much that I didn’t expect to find.В The typical arguments ofВ big oil critics were advanced and then redacted byВ big oil supporters.В The company itself made edits to correctВ obvious vandalism and wrote on the company’s history.В The most controversial edit I found was provided by Union Pacific Railroad, who wasn’t concerned so much with В ExxonMobil’s reputation, but in marginalizing theВ wacky myth weВ nutty liberalsВ call global warming:
Investigative reporting by the British newspaper ”The Guardian” has found that ExxonMobil has funded, among other groups critical of the scientific consensus on global warming, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Heartland Institute, Congress on Racial Equality, TechCentralStation.com, and International Policy Network.
became:
Investigative reporting by the left-wing British newspaper ”The Guardian” has found that ExxonMobil has funded, among other groups critical of on global warming, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Heartland Institute, Congress on Racial Equality, TechCentralStation.com, and International Policy Network.
Note the classificaton of “The Guardian” as a left-wing newspaper and the removal of “scientific concensus.”В В Union Pacific notes in its edit comment thatВ ”there is no” such thing.В В
I think the moral of this assignment is that we can all rest easy knowing that mommy’s basement vandals and large, international corporations alike have found ways to adapt their own special method of spin to the wild ride we call Web 2.0.В
Posted by jmm332
Filed in Uncategorized ·Tags: Department of Labor, Elaine Chow, ExxonMobil, George W. Bush, Union Pacific, Wikipedia, WikiScanner
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