On Monday, we started a poll that asked readers where they got their news.
Six percent said they got their news from newspapers, four percent from radio, 13 percent from TV and a whopping 77 percent from the Internet.
This was demonstrated this past weekend with the sudden death of Michael Jackson. The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack, but barely survived the singer’s death.
A series of web sites fell like dominoes as Boomers and GenXers raced to verify the truth of the Jackson death rumors. Twitter, Wikipedia, tmz.com, latimes.com, and Google News all reported outages, according to CNN — which had problems itself.
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