No lesson learned
After last year’s Duke University varsity lacrosse rape-hoax debacle - which came to an end only last week - you’d think people, both media professionals and media amateurs, would have been a little bit reluctant to circulate rumors or rush to judgment after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but no. It’s a sad spectacle to behold.
It cuts across the board, from the early report that the gunman was a Chinese student who came to VT on a student visa to the obligatory speculation-mongering about a potential so-called backlash against Koreans and American-Koreans.
