Conservapedia:In the media
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The latest sightings are at the top.
All dates are Common Era unless otherwise noted.
[edit] July 1 2008
L'affaire Lenski is getting Conservapedia some mockery press attention at the on-line edition of the Guardian.
[edit] June 14 2008
Not only does Stars and Stripes mock Conservapedia in an article about strange religious beliefs,[1] but Andrew Schlafly decides to publicize the embarrassment.[2]
[edit] May 17 2008
Ben Caleca at the Michigan Daily unwittingly joins in the Ides project with some commentary and disgust on his blog.
[edit] January 12, 2008
Thom McCombs of the Vallejo Times-Herald responds to an anti-ACLU editorial (archived & not found). When referring to the writer of the opinion piece, McCombs says "Do they really believe the garbage that they get from Conservapedia and spew onto these pages, or do they just hate the Constitution, and think that swiftboating the ACLU is a way to bring it down?"
[edit] Jesus Day, 2007
An article featuring an interview with a hardcore Wikipedian - resulting in a very pro-Wikipedia article - mentions Conservapedia in the 12th paragraph.
[edit] December 6, 2007
In an article about GodTube, a sane writer for the Michigan Daily refers to CP as a "propagandist endeavor" (4th paragraph down)
[edit] November 2, 2007
Conservapedia receives a mention in the AP article on GodTube (7th paragraph), published by CNN.
[edit] July 13, 2007
Mark Pesce uses a comparison of the various encyclopedia articles to derive lulz from Conservapedia.
[edit] July 1, 2007
Conservapedia gets a few mentions in an Observer (UK) piece on Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia.
[edit] June 29, 2007
The Institute for Creative Thought Crimes has a nice article (Conservapedia and The War Against Truth) about Conservapedia's Factual Relativism.
[edit] June 27, 2007
Conservapedia makes the big time!
On the Daily Show, Lewis Black reports on Conservapedia, complete with screenshots, a biased alternative to WikiPedia, since "you" are too biased. Featuring the article on homosexuality. [3] Despite driving significantly more traffic than other media references have, Conservapedia not only doesn't trumpet this on its front page, it deletes references to it.
[edit] June 20, 2007
The Register picks up the report of the LA Times. More mentioning of RationalWiki.
- "Unlike the L. A. Times piece, the Register's article is mocking and tongue-in-cheek. I don't think it should be mentioned on the main page. I would be very annoyed if someone put this on the main page in a way that implied that this was positive coverage; it is not." - Dpbsmith's wise disclaimer in the edit that gives the article link.
[edit] June 19, 2007
A Los Angeles Times article names names and mentions RationalWiki. (Free registration required to read)
- The [15 year-old] girl, who is home-schooled, wrote an article for Conservapedia on Irish dancing and uses the site to research papers. But the biggest lesson she's taken away as a young conservative is: "There are people who want to destroy us."
[edit] June 13, 2007
"Hate Wikipedia? Start Your Own" at freakonomics.com
[edit] June 6, 2007
- In the Guardian Unlimited: Is Wikipedia too liberal for you?
- "A columnist just criticized Conservapedia, probably expecting to win support for it. Instead, the columnist herself is widely criticized by the public. See the column and the numerous public criticisms of it here." - CP front page on the Shinyshiny (a girls' guide to gadgets - hmmmm) article.
[edit] June 4/6, 2007
"Conservapedia continues to attract mainstream press attention. Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam's comments on Pat Robertson reveal a case study on objectivity." - CP front page opinion of Alex Beam, regular columnist at the Boston Globe taking the piss out on CP.
[edit] March 19 2007
"Weird, wild wiki on which anything goes" Metro
[edit] March 21, 2007
Jimmy Wales thinks conservapedia is biased, when interviewed by Time.
[edit] March 1-2 2007
"Conservapedia - the US religious right's answer to Wikipedia" - a boring, balanced piece from the Guardian: main newspaper article, technology section article
