HOLY SHIT: What the hell is wrong with the press? I just found this article from independent.co.uk, about the three men detained in the Florida "terror scare." This is a frightening example of a rampaging rumor-mill. It makes me wonder how much distortion there really is in the press when we don't have the luxury of confirming the facts: Read This

Among other things, the article lists the men as being "of Jordanian, Iranian and Pakistani origin." Two of them are American citizens, one born in the US. "a woman in a Georgia restaurant said she overheard them talking about a terrorist strike on Miami." That's not what she said. "The woman in the restaurant said the men had boasted they would make Americans cry on 13 September just as they had cried on 11 September." That's not what she said by a long shot. Holy shit. I guess we can expect every journalist to abbreviate and embellish to make an article sound better.