One of the things that has always struck me as intrinsically stupid about the Blog-O-Sphere is how it reacts to Breaking News.
Like, say, the Discovery Channel nut going nuts. Why on earth is this necessary?
Andrea Nill / Think Progress:
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
And it goes on and on and on like this.
The reason I didn't react to anything about the Discovery Channel Incident is that (1) I have a family and a job, and (2) what the hell do I know about it? I'm not there, I have no clue what's going on, nobody else does either -- we live in the age of Instant News, and mostly what that involves is camera crews taking videos of building exteriors, and also a lot of Moron Experts telling people what they think they already know.
And I still don't know what's going on with this shooter person. I do know that I am troubled by the idea that every attention seeking killer nowadays seems to have a fucking Facebook account, and that there are zillions of Encyclopedia Brownosers frantically Googling to be the first to Twitter about what they've found out about the murderer as soon as the first corpse gets dead.
It's awfully vulgar, aside from other considerations, moral, legal, forensic, etc.
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