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Rewind to one year ago: We watched, transfixed, as a giant silver balloon hurtled across the sky, chased by aircraft and vehicles on the ground. Inside was an undoubtedly terrified 6-year-old boy. The nation held its breath.
And then exhaled in a giant sigh of disgust as it slowly became clear the whole episode was a giant hoax, perpetrated by the boy's parents, who'd launched an unmanned -- or un-boyed in this case -- Mylar bag toward Denver International Airport and then called authorities. And the media.
With the first anniversary of that cringing embarrassment coming Friday, here's a question worth contemplating: Have we learned our lesson when it comes to believing what we see on instant news feeds and the Internet?
Your opinion?
And then exhaled in a giant sigh of disgust as it slowly became clear the whole episode was a giant hoax, perpetrated by the boy's parents, who'd launched an unmanned -- or un-boyed in this case -- Mylar bag toward Denver International Airport and then called authorities. And the media.
With the first anniversary of that cringing embarrassment coming Friday, here's a question worth contemplating: Have we learned our lesson when it comes to believing what we see on instant news feeds and the Internet?
Your opinion?
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