Too Many Lies on Too Many Blogs (PT 2)

I am so upset with fake blog sites right now.  The owners/writers of these sites are completely ruthless individuals who are willing to degrade the integrity of the entire social media industry to ensure more clicks and visitors.  How pathetic of a world we live in where people will mislead the world for a damn dollar.. Check this out

Friday after Michael Jackson’s death, there was a big hoopla about this guy named Jordan (I also saw him referred to as Evan) Chandler.  On twitter EVERYONE was all upset, tweeting that there was a site who had the official revelation from Mr. Chandler about him apologizing to the world about the 1993 molestation accusations against Michael.  If you dont know, that court case tarnished Michael Jackson’s media presence for the remainder of his career AND cost him over $15 million in court and settlement charges.  After this info was put out it was instantly the number one topic of discussion. In fact I even went off on Chandler on my twitter.

Now almost a week later, there has STILL been no official news reports confirming the revelation, making it an obvious hoax.  Despite that fact, the enormous buzz about the topic is already EVERYWHERE.  The original site has been created with thousands of hits, and other blogs trying to stay up on the subject have recreated their own version of the article thus keeping the lie alive.

Also I read on CNN.com that this trend has been stretched to the maximum to say the least.  There have been numerous reports of celebrities Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and Rick Astley all dying in the past week.  All of which are completely false reports.  CNN went on to say:

The situation is calling attention to the changing state of the news media: As information online moves faster and comes from more sources, it’s more difficult to verify what’s true and what may be shockingly false.

Some have downplayed the situation, saying the rumors are not harmful. Others find the situation offensive in light of the actual deaths last week.

The owner of the site said traffic jumped from a few thousand users per day to about 500,000 in the two days after Michael Jackson’s death, he said.

Its is so crazy to me to see how easy it is to see people joke so freely about people dying.  Especially in a week where we lost four American icons.  Ridiculous.  Jeff Goldblum pressed the issue even further by adding his own light to the situation.  He went on Comedy Central’s “The Colber Report” after the incident and brought his jokes with him.

In the episode, host Stephen Colbert jokes about thinking Goldblum is dead even as the actor is on stage beside him.

Goldblum then posts to Twitter to try to prove that he is still living saying:

“The dead can Twitter.”

Then Goldblum goes on to read his own false obituary into the camera. WOW smh.

The most difficult part of all of this is the obvious desensitized demeanor that has fallen upon all of us.  In addition to that, regardless of how credible site show to be it is nearly impossible to trace the sources that authors use for their “facts”.  Readers beware, not all blogs are created equal.

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