katherine st asaph

barthel:

I’m going to be writing about web politics for Salon once a week for a bit. Here’s my first thing, about the Colorado shootings and crowdsourced journalism.

the way we ____:

Ingram points out that the worst inaccuracy to come out of the coverage was ABC’s claim that the gunman was a Tea Party member, but the Reddit thread contains major errors about the numbers and identities of the dead and the motivation for the shooting, as well as a large number of kitten pictures.