--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > M2, you're on campus, right? Heard anything about any > > > > suicides? I haven't, and there hasn't been anything > > > > in the papers either. Would definitely be front-page > > > > news in a town this size. > > > > > > I think this rumor may have been started by > > > Knapp on his blog: > > > > > > Sad News: Possible MUM Suicide > > > > > > Posted by John M. Knapp, LMSW at 1/19/2007 10:36:00 AM > > > > Doug's post to FFL containing the rumor is dated earlier > > than that blog entry: > > > > Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:42 am > > > > I'm more inclined to believe he reposted on his blog the > > rumor he read on FFL. > > I noticed this, too, just as I did my research > after reading the first mention of the rumor > here by searching the online version of the > Fairfield Ledger. I couldn't find anything there > or on Google or in any of the neighboring Iowa > papers, so I chalked it up as a rumor, and didn't > bother to comment on it here. Especially because > a few others had already done so, asking for > validation of the rumor. > > Compare and contrast to (what appears to be) John > Knapp reading the rumor here, wanting to believe > it were true and thus *not* doing his research, > and printing it on his blog as truth. > > Also compare and contrast to one person here, > reading John Knapp's blog and finding his version > of the rumor, wanting to believe it was the source > and thus *not* doing her research by checking the > timestamps, and starting her own rumor that John > was the original source of the first rumor. > > It seems to me that in both of those cases what > is going on is a person who 1) has an agenda, > and 2) is willing to forward or start rumors > that *further* that agenda, without bothering > to verify their validity. > > Fanatics "against," fanatics "for." Same modus > operandi. >
Eh. If you're talking about me, I never noticed the time-stamps or I would have said something.
