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Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
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Protect artistic freedom from the Aspen Art Museum's petty tyranny
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Front page, Aspen:
Wikipedia pages for town institutions are fair game for critics
by Carolyn Sackariason, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, August 9, 2012
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Look up Aspen Skiing Co. on Wikipedia and one will find the sordid details of the company’s years-long battle with a former ski instructor who was fired after criticizing it for its pay policies. You’ll also learn about the firing of a singer who sang an unfavorable song about rich people in a crowded bar during aprés ski.
That type of information accounts for nearly half of the entry describing the SkiCo, and was posted by Lee Mulcahy, who is involved in libel and termination lawsuits with the company’s owners Jim and Paula Crown and its CEO, Mike Kaplan. Mulcahy also is banned from SkiCo properties and is facing trespassing charges after he allegedly stepped onto company property to serve court papers for his lawsuit against the Crowns.
But the worldwide web is apparently fair game; the SkiCo might not be able to ban Mulcahy from editing its Wikipedia page but it has removed his posts numerous times.
“He’s been doing it for a while,” said SkiCo spokesman Jeff Hanle. “We have taken it down and it goes back up.”
Mulcahy has taken credit for the material added to the SkiCo entry, just as he has for edits he’s made to the Wikipedia page of the Aspen Art Museum, whose properties he also is banned from. A local judge last month dismissed his lawsuit against the nonprofit and its chief executive. He sued on the basis that his First Amendment rights were violated after he was banned from museum property when he posted signs that were critical of the institution.
AAM spokesman Jeff Murcko said while the nonprofit is not certain who was behind uncomplimentary entries made to the Wikipedia page, museum personnel were first made aware of the “screeds” in February. Earlier this year, an AAM staff member went to the page to update...
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