“The last eighteen hours have generated tremendous and painful attention — on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, as well as from television media inquiries — linking Sunil to the video stills released by the FBI yesterday afternoon,” said Akhil Tripathi, Sunil’s father, in a family statement last week, WPVI-TV reported…
On Monday, Reddit general manager Erik Martin apologized for the “dangerous speculation” that “spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties.”…
Martin’s post was written before the student’s body was found… (more)
EDITOR: So long as a significant portion of the public wants to read the journalistic equivalent of ‘gossip’, some in the media will publish it.
