rebecca LANDO

nickdouglas:

tl;dr: This guy’s humor book about werewolves was found on the scene of a possible crime, and by watching his book get grossly misrepresented, the author discovered how equally misrepresented the alleged criminals were. And not just by “lamestream media” but by “progressive” sites like Gawker.

We all know it but we live as if we don’t: Your online news is almost always wrong about something important, it’s usually processed — think of the stuff Michael Pollan taught you not to eat — from earlier stories and is thus less like actual food, and it defaults to social conservatism.

The new hobby of the once-bullied is to bully from afar, by accepting the school rumor about the weird kid you never knew. This is a waste of our feelings, and I think most of us caught in its cycle need more than these reminders to shake us out of it.

Love the Michael Pollan bit.