Salon story chronicles the evolution of 'Internet Doomsday' scare
Sometimes the media gets blamed because it really is the media’s fault.
Salon chronicles an excellent example here with a story about how this July 9 has come to be known in some quarters as “Internet Doomsday.”
From the Salon story:
The apocalyptic story line was once reserved for truly apocalyptic events. Nuclear war. The return of Christ. Environmental or economic collapse. But it’s 2012, and the apocalypse has become the basis for everything from Super Bowl commercials to summer romantic comedies – and no media story is too small to have an apocalyptic moniker attached to it. (Remember Snowmageddon?) If you want to get the world’s attention, simply proclaim that the world will soon end – or the Internet. Just read coverage of the so-called Internet Doomsday virus, which will supposedly strike and shut down the Web on July 9.
Not going to happen.
But here’s R.E.M.’s video version of “The End of the World As We Know It.”
