Yesterday I spoke of how the net enabled us to fact check and find other perspectives to find the truth in political stories. This story in Wired tells how a college professor wrote a report with political implications in the Dan Rather CBS Broohaha. He and and his bosses at the university were swamped with hate mail filled with namecalling and cries for his resignation.
It seems that just as we can have electronic truth finders and voices crying in the wilderness, there can be electronic mobs storming the castle with torches and pitchforks.
Posted by apopheniac at October 7, 2004 07:34 AM