Another useful reminder about media scepticism

How my book became part of the 'satanic sex stabbing'

"No one wants to look at the story of Chandler and Larrabee as the story of two people. Instead, it's another piece of Internet content, and showing the whole truth takes the fun out of it. In the age of the hit count, this story had all the elements of a traffic monster... Whatever really happened was so much less entertaining than what could have happened, so why not use technically true words that make the story what they wanted it to be?"

While I'm at it, here's another:

It's Me in That 9/11 Photo

"Had Hoepker walked fifty feet over to introduce himself he would have discovered a bunch of New Yorkers in the middle of an animated discussion about what had just happened. He instead chose to publish the photograph that allowed him to draw the conclusions he wished to draw."

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.