Dear Internet: Read A Little Deeper, It Won’t Hurt You, I Promise

Me on social media last week: If I can make a request of the people of the internet: Actually read the story, not just the headline Interpret what that story is actually saying If there’s an original source — click through, read THAT Share the original source If you can’t find the original source: might be BS! Sorry gang, I gotta go a little deeper here on this thought. The inciting incident for the above is due to a story I saw going around related to Star Wars, namely… “RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters“, from a website called Geeks and Gamers. Pretty bold stuff, right? An entire chunk of the Star Wars universe being cut out. Without digging too deep into the oddity of the story itself, it’s a great demonstration of the above scenario. I’d never heard of Geeks and Gamers, and I like to think I’m a little too online. That’s question mark number one. Then I read the article itself, which uses bold, almost comically…