Fully Deluded: Wall Street Rag

Why We Published That Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report

Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 47 days ago
Fully Deluded : Techno

Around 9:15AM yesterday, we learned that the lead story on CNN's citizen-journalism site iReport said that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital after a heart attack. By the time we found it, the story had more than 100 Diggs and 50 comments and was all over Twitter. We didn't know whether the story was true, and we had no immediate way to confirm or debunk it. We viewed it as significant, however, both for those who care about Apple and Steve and as a first meaningful test of "citizen journalism." We knew that our readers would want to know about the story and evaluate it for themselves.... (original story)