As we can see by the Shirley Sherrod case the layman is not only the victim of misinformation by the media. The Obama Administration and the NAACP were literally caught with their pants down for reacting to the right wing media machine that attacked Sherrod. These media outlets are now trying to cover their tracks.
One thing that the Sherrod case exposes is the lie that the liberals are some kind of champions against racism. You would think that liberals would go into the trenches with their fellow comrades in the fight against the right-wing media machine. Nope, none of that since everyone is so worried about image over substance or real politics.
The transference of information, or misinformation, now, can mean life or death, or in this case someone's job. Everyone is reacting to the speed at which information is traveling through the web and into mass consciousness. A celebrity is pronounced dead on Facebook or Twitter and the eulogies obituaries, and tears start flowing before the dead can turn on their computer and say wait: I'm not dead!
Now more than ever we have to check our information to see whether it's valid or not or can be verified through a second source. Have we come to a moment where the truth doesn't matter?
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