"once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."

"Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home. We'll change
A LOT of things....hehehe."~Homer Simpson

Layers of sophisticated fact-checking are foiled again, as Irish student hoaxes the media with fake quote.

Shane Fitzgerald said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.

His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.