Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Murder and the deranged internet

The Newtown Shootings were reported in the press within minutes after they happened, and many of the initial facts reported were inaccurate.  This led to a few innocent people being victims of Information Highway Drive-by Threats, an Oregon free-lance cartoonist being one of them.  Unfortunately the immediacy of the Internet allows us to propagate misinformation in seconds.

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