Media Follies.

The L.A. Times has officially retracted its story on the Tupac Shakur killing thanks to its reliance on material now not considered credible.
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Bloggers, especially professionals, waste so much of their time tied to computers, they literally get sick from the stress involved.

I was going to post this article from yesterday, but I was too stressed out to do it.

Blogging is such a time suck; I don't spend as much time doing it as I did when I first started the blog over five years ago. With a job, it's hard. And if you're not paid for doing it, and nobody will bother to donate money for you, it's worse.
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Media Follies.

The L.A. Times admits it screwed up on its story regarding the Tupac Shakur killing:

A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday.

Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section.

The criticism came first from The Smoking Gun website, which said the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax, and then from subjects of the story, who said they had been defamed.

Undoubtedly there will be some lawsuits coming out of this.