Conservapedia:In the media
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The latest sightings are at the top.
All dates are Common Era unless otherwise noted.
[edit] January 2010
In his January 9 New York Times article "Of Individual Liberty and Cap and Trade", Robert H. Frank referenced Conservapedia's article "conservative parables" to praise University of Chicago economics professor and 1991 Nobel laureate Robert H. Coase, whose “extraordinary insight was that the free market always reaches the most efficient level of productive activity, in the absence of transaction costs.” A Chinese website translated it two months later.
A French translation of the Rolling Stone magazine article "Obama's Big Sellout" on Courrier International, "Wall Street continue à faire la loi" (English translation on Google), references Conservapedia's article about Barack Obama in a sidebar:
| “ | Le portail Conservapedia, le Wikipedia de la droite américaine, explique dans son article consacré à Obama que les banques de Wall Street qui ont bénéficié du plan de sauvetage ont figuré parmi ses meilleurs soutiens pendant la campagne électorale. | ” |
In English, according to a local French speaker:
| “ | According to Conservapedia, an American right-wing version of Wikipedia, the Wall Street banks which benefited from Obama's bailout were among his strongest supporters during the electoral campaign." | ” |
Local newspaper article (Jan. 6) The Daily Record
[edit] December 2009
The Conservative Bible Project makes the AP. (Dec. 3) (ABC link)
An opinion piece appears in the Christian Science Monitor slamming the Conservative Bible Project. (Dec. 7)
Conservapedia founder Andy Schlafly appears on fake conservative pundit Stephen Colbert's television show and giggles nervously. (Dec. 8)
[edit] November 2009
Local Sunday rag published an article on the 40th birthday of the 'net. Conservapedia described as "unintentionally hysterical" under a heading describing Wikipedia. (Nov. 15)
[edit] October, 2009
Conservapedia strikes it big on the blogs with the Conservative Bible Project (see further references in the main article). The news has even made it to television and print (though not in America).
October 18: Andy manages to piss off the Tennessean.com, who quote Biblical scholar and Wheaton professor Doug Moo, "Silly is probably as kind as I could be about it".
October 22: A report at religiondispatches handles Andrew's bimbo deftly.
October 22: Even Joseph Farah at WorldNutDaily thinks the project is "incredibly stupid and misguided".
[edit] May 11 2009
Humeur site Cracked.com includes Conservapedia among its Five terrifying bastardizations of the Wikipedia model. The article leads to a flurry of new (and probably doomed) user registrations at CP.
[edit] April 23 2009
Vanity Fair carries a scathing report on the "Bastion of the Reality-Denying Right". [1]
[edit] February 17 2009
Pravmir, the Russian Orthodox Church web site, mentions Conservapedia in an article discussing Christian "clones" of popular web sites. The original in Russian, and a translation, scroll down about halfway.
[edit] January 23 2009
A post on Wonkette attacks a parody article posted on Conservapedia: Senate Democrats from States with Republican Governors on the grounds that it constitutes a hitlist. The offending article disappeared when CP's server crashed a couple of days later, and has since been protected from recreation.
[edit] December 15 2008
A San Francisco Weekly article uses Conservapedia's stance on the Truth as an illustrative example to introduce a piece about adults disagreeing.
[edit] December 3 2008
The Yale Daily News uses Conservapedia as an example of "...the tendency toward groupthink. This is easy to see on political Web sites like Huffington Post or Conservapedia that are largely ideologically homogenous".[2] Andy thinks they are complimenting Conservapedia (since his reading comprehension is so poor),[3] because in the previous paragraph they write: "But user-generated content needs to be taken more seriously by the regular media in order to remain relevant."
[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,[4] but Andrew Schlafly decides to publicize the embarrassment.[5]
[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] January 1, 2008
Damian Thompson's book Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History mentions Conservapedia on one page, right next to CreationWiki. He didn't like either of them.
[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. [6] 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 13, 2007
Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Schlafly about Conservapedia on "All Things Considered".
[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
