the fastest way to bad information

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http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...,5084537.story

props to reddit for doing the right thing and apologizing. it took hundreds of years for print journalism to develop the tools needed to avoid the kinds of traps that on line media seems to step in over and over. at least in this case, one organization recognized the error which gives hope that next time they'll handle it differently.

crowd sourcing can be an effective tool for some jobs. but having panicked ninny's wildly speculating and passing that off as "journalism" is about as far from effective as you can get.