snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed

pipingguy writes "Online Journalism Review interviews David Mikkelson of the Urban Legends Reference Pages. While the Internet has taken its share of knocks for helping scammers perpetrate e-mail and Web hoaxes (the Bambi hunt reportedly was staged to sell videos on the proprietor's Web site), not enough credit is given to the folks who are using the Internet to debunk them. Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995."

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uhhh

[gfody]

holy animated gifs and midi soundtracks.. snopes.com looks like my mom's first website

LINUX for the DESKTOP?

[Anonymous Coward]

DEFINATELY an URBAN LEGEND.

What about the Liberal Media?

[Limburgher]

I'm still trying to find that channel. I'd love to see it.

Really.

Re:What about the Liberal Media?

[Anonymous Coward]

California is a desert land roughly the size of Iraq. It is also an object lesson in the dangers of trying to impose democracy in a culture that is not ready for it. California "is degenerating into a banana republic," writes former Enron adviser Paul Krugman in his New York Times column. Leon Panetta, himself a Californian, writes in the Los Angeles Times that California is undergoing a "breakdown in [the] trust that is essential to governing in a democracy." Newsday quotes Bob Mulholland, another California political activist, as warning of "a coup attempt by the Taliban element." Others say a move is under way to "hijack" California's government.

What isn't widely known is that the U.S. has a large military presence in California. And our troops are coming under attack from angry locals. "Two off-duty Marines were stabbed, one critically, when they and two companions were attacked by more than a dozen alleged gang members early Thursday," KSND-TV reports from San Diego, a city in California's south.

How many young American men and women will have to make the ultimate sacrifice before we realize it isn't worth it? Is the Bush administration too proud to ask the U.N. for help in pacifying California? Plainly California has turned into a quagmire, and the sooner we bring our troops back home, the better.

hmm

[wiggys]

"Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995."

Or so they would have us believe... what if Snopes is a secret CIA plot to spread deliberate disinformation (the same CIA which is run by Masonic Lizards who would love nothing better than to enslare the world's population using advanced psychic mind-control tactics)

Re:hmm

[PakProtector]

Oh, stop spreading such disinformation.

Anyone who's in the know knows that the Masonic Lizards are just a front for the secret organization of International Bartenders.
Bartenders are the most powerful people in the world! Just think about it. I've told many deep, dark secrets to bartenders! They must know absolutely everything!

Even now, they sit in their secret base, plotting the overthrow of the world's governments, using those same governments' leaders as their willing dupes!


Of course... I could be crazy.



Where's the +1 Paranoid mod?

Re:hmm

[NickFitz]

I used to be a bartender.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

That's right, I heard the same thing.

Do you want ice in that?

Re:A matter of trust

[skryche]

No, dude, you're on to something. My cousin was saying just the same thing, and she's David Mikkelson's babysitter's boyfriend's best friend.

Re:Television show.

[Burpmaster]

I remember reading that Snopes: The TV Show was in development but I never heard anything about it again. I was looking forward to that.

That was just an urban legend.

Re:A matter of trust

[Thing 1]

I know about half the mindless net followers will believe everything they read in email.

Those are my relatives, you insensitive clod!

you know what amuses me...

[Montag2k]

I don't know how many times I have referred my friends to snopes.com after hearing them recite to me an urban legend. Their response to me is "you believe this crap? You can't believe everything you read on the internet!"