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Bill8 · 07-20-2012, 11:50 PM

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News of the massacre at the Batman screening in Aurora, Colo., this morning sent a thousand journalists (and ?citizen journalists?) to their browsers, racing to be the first to uncover the telling detail about the suspect. Would James Holmes turn out, like Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner, to have confessed in an online gaming forum to ?hav(ing) aggression 24/7?? Might he have penned online political screeds, like Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik?

Maybe. But if so, they weren?t forthcoming Friday morning. Mashable?s Lance Ulanoff writes of spending all morning scouring Facebook, Twitter, even MySpace for clues and coming up with absolutely nothing. ?I cannot get over what an online ghost Holmes appears to be,? Ulanoff wrote.

At least Ulanoff came up with nothing. Others came up with something worse?misinformation and mistaken identity. ?There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colo., uh, page, ah, on the Colorado Tea Party site, talking about him joining the tea party last year,? ABC News? Brian Ross excitedly informed milions of Good Morning America viewers Friday morning. Ross and the news organization apologized soon after, acknowledging that the report was incorrect.

Conservative sites such as Breitbart.com were predictably outraged by the bogus link, seeing in it a case of liberal media bias. But that indignation is perhaps undermined by Breitbart blogger Joel Pollak?s own unconfirmed ?exclusive? headline that Holmes ?could be a registered Democrat.?

07-20-2012, 11:50 PM
Bill8 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,901	http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_te..._motive.h tml News of the massacre at the Batman screening in Aurora, Colo., this morning sent a thousand journalists (and ?citizen journalists?) to their browsers, racing to be the first to uncover the telling detail about the suspect. Would James Holmes turn out, like Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner, to have confessed in an online gaming forum to ?hav(ing) aggression 24/7?? Might he have penned online political screeds, like Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik? Maybe. But if so, they weren?t forthcoming Friday morning. Mashable?s Lance Ulanoff writes of spending all morning scouring Facebook, Twitter, even MySpace for clues and coming up with absolutely nothing. ?I cannot get over what an online ghost Holmes appears to be,? Ulanoff wrote. At least Ulanoff came up with nothing. Others came up with something worse?misinformation and mistaken identity. ?There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colo., uh, page, ah, on the Colorado Tea Party site, talking about him joining the tea party last year,? ABC News? Brian Ross excitedly informed milions of Good Morning America viewers Friday morning. Ross and the news organization apologized soon after, acknowledging that the report was incorrect. Conservative sites such as Breitbart.com were predictably outraged by the bogus link, seeing in it a case of liberal media bias. But that indignation is perhaps undermined by Breitbart blogger Joel Pollak?s own unconfirmed ?exclusive? headline that Holmes ?could be a registered Democrat.?