So I just read that Miley Cyrus died in a car accident last night. This is only less than a month after reports of rapper Lil Wayne's daughter also being killed in a wreck. Thing is? Neither is true!
The Wayne rumor was circulated by various gossip sites last month, resulting in a flood of traffic and comments to the rapper's MySpace page. His record label soon debunked the myth. But you have to wonder what sort of trauma such lies could do to an 8-year-old girl.
Miley's rumor, meanwhile, seems a bit less sophisticated, and is nothing more than a little April Fool's-style Digg abuse and Wikipedia vandalism. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to have even made a blip on the radar screens of legitimate news outlets.
But it all leads one to wonder: Who's next?
And it also whips up a little food for thought: With the lines blurring between the professional journalists of legitimate media and the amateur journalists of the blogosphere, how long will we actually be able to count on believing the "news" we read? Have we ever really been able to?
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