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One young asian-american's interest in guns caused some people to put two and two together and make five. His livejournal site is fascinating reading Here's how he describes what happened as he was misidentified as the shooter:
Coming out. I am not the shooter. Through this experience, I have received numerous death threats, slanderous accusations, and my phone is out of charge from the barrage of calls. Local police have been notified of the situation.
I'll be the first person to say how great the internet is, but it doesn't give anyone (journalist or blogger) a holiday on fact checking. ABC News describe it like this:
He is Asian, he lived in the dorm where the first shooting occurred and he recently broke up with his girlfriend -- he also happens to have a web blog packed with pictures in which he poses with firearms. On the Internet, Wayne Chiang is as good as convicted.
ABC go on to describe how three different agencies confirmed Wayne is "not a suspect or a person of interest." As we race to cover a story we need to remember that it isn't a race. There are serious questions here about how we deal with corrections in the social media and further questions how the mainstream media interprets and deals with items posted to popular social sites.
His toys
Coming out. I am not the shooter. Through this experience, I have received numerous death threats, slanderous accusations, and my phone is out of charge from the barrage of calls. Local police have been notified of the situation.
I'll be the first person to say how great the internet is, but it doesn't give anyone (journalist or blogger) a holiday on fact checking. ABC News describe it like this:
He is Asian, he lived in the dorm where the first shooting occurred and he recently broke up with his girlfriend -- he also happens to have a web blog packed with pictures in which he poses with firearms. On the Internet, Wayne Chiang is as good as convicted.
ABC go on to describe how three different agencies confirmed Wayne is "not a suspect or a person of interest." As we race to cover a story we need to remember that it isn't a race. There are serious questions here about how we deal with corrections in the social media and further questions how the mainstream media interprets and deals with items posted to popular social sites.
His toys