Faked Hacker Article

Conrad Heiney writes "Salon Magazine online has an excellent analysis of the current New Republic magazine's failure to fact-check a hilariously inaccurate and completely faked story about rogue teen "hackers". " The most interesting thing to me is how the media picks certain topics, and can just go crazy with them. Films and books have Genres, and I'm convinced that commercials, as well as the news has them as well. Commercials have the 'Happy Family' genre, and occasionally the 'Clever Covering Up of Nudity' or the 'Sexy Model Convinces us to by Something' genre. Likewise the "News" has the 'Hacker' genre along with a host of others. It's no surprise that the news is as often just as fabricated as TV, Film and Commercials. Moral:I shouldn't make stuff up. Bummer, 'cuz I had this really exciting piece I wanted to run tomorrow... *grin*