BuzzFeed and Elan Gale's Internet hoax: Too good to check.

BuzzFeed and Elan Gale's Internet hoax: Too good to check.: This is fairly messed up. Yes, people on the Internet want to believe salacious stories. Reporters want to publish stories that people read. If there’s a great reward, and little downside, to be had in publishing B.S., the Internet’s going to get more B.S. As one of my colleagues put it, "'Too good to check' used to be a warning to newspaper editors not to jump on bullshit stories. Now it’s a business model."