Political rumors, full of sound and fury, fly fast online

Chicago Tribune by Bob Secter | Oct. 17, 2008 (News Analysis)

Have you read the e-mail from the psychologist who detailed how her South Pacific vacation was ruined by an encounter with a boorish, racist John McCain?

Surely your inbox has been clogged with those exposes about Barack Obama's secret life as a radical Muslim who won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance? And how about Sarah Palin posing with a rifle in a U.S. flag bikini and claiming her daughter's baby as her own?

Malarkey all. Yet people ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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 by Jim Lang - Oct. 18, 2008

This is a short well written and well sourced story that decries the volume of false and vicious rumors afloat in this election -- and places much of the blame on the instant communication and relative anonymity of the internet. It is interesting to note, though, that one of more outlandish rumors was spread by talk radio, a medium that is not anonymous but apparently lacks integrity.

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