Lies, Damn Lies, and the Internet

Jeanie Straub writes “ESPN reported as breaking news — along with FoxSports.com, MSNBC.com and several radio stations — that Shaquille O’Neal was out for the season Wednesday after finding the fake story on a web site that had an address similar to The Miami Herald. ‘The Herald never reported such a story, and ESPN immediately retracted it upon learning that the story the network received was an e-mail hoax,’ the Miami Herald later posted on its site.”