By: Vickie J. Rubinson
"Despite what you may have read," said John D. Sutter in CNN.com, "Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and Rick Astley are alive." Since the recent deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, "fake news" of celebrity deaths has spread across the Internet like wildfire, highlighting the "inherent problem with the decentralization of news" online. But it wasn't "all bad" for Goldbum--he was invited onto The Colbert Report to deliver "his own false obituary."
But it's "dangerous if uninformed readers take certain news at face value," said Sherry Huang in Beliefnet and there's "something gruesome about adding to the public sense of grief, bewilderment, and disorientation by reporting false celebrity deaths immediately after real celebrity deaths." It's also pretty "disrespectful" to the celebrities who have and have not died.
"Despite what you may have read," said John D. Sutter in CNN.com, "Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and Rick Astley are alive." Since the recent deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, "fake news" of celebrity deaths has spread across the Internet like wildfire, highlighting the "inherent problem with the decentralization of news" online. But it wasn't "all bad" for Goldbum--he was invited onto The Colbert Report to deliver "his own false obituary."
But it's "dangerous if uninformed readers take certain news at face value," said Sherry Huang in Beliefnet and there's "something gruesome about adding to the public sense of grief, bewilderment, and disorientation by reporting false celebrity deaths immediately after real celebrity deaths." It's also pretty "disrespectful" to the celebrities who have and have not died.
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