[LINK] bin Laden is dead

Martin Barry marty at supine.com
Wed May 4 18:31:20 AEST 2011


$quoted_author = "Antony Barry" ;
> 
> Agree. The deliberate death of any person , no matter how vile their
> actions may have been, leaves parents, wives and children behind and
> saddened.

Along those lines there has been a "quote" from Martin Luther King going
around the Internet.

Megan McArdle suspects it's not correctly attributed...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/

...and then figures out how it came about...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/

...and an interview with whose original, and correct, posting triggered the
incorrect re-postings and re-tweets:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/the-shy-woman-whose-words-accidentally-became-martin-luther-kings/238309/

cheers
Marty




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