By: E&P Staff A Nashville man has admitted that he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., the former editor of The Tennessean, among other high-profile positions.
Brian Chase, 38, left his job on Friday as an operations manager at a small delivery company, after sending a letter to Seigenthaler admitting he had suggested via Wikipedia, the user-written Web "encyclopedia," that Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy.
He did this only after a Web sleuth had zeroed in on his company, and a reporter had called his boss, The New York Times
revealed today.
Seigenthaler had discovered the false entry only recently and
wrote about it in USA Today, but had not been able to track down the culprit.
In a letter to Seigenthaler, the Times revealed, Chase said he thought that Wikipedia was a "gag" Web site (some would not argue with this) and that he had written the assassination tale to shock a co-worker.
Chase said he later felt "remorseful," but only offered his apology after a sleuth, Daniel Brandt, of San Antonio, closed in on him. Brandt runs an anti-Wikipedia Web site.
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