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Ok we've had a lot of deaths over the past week, from Ed McMahon to Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson and Billy Mays, and on Monday, the comedian Fred Travelina. All of these great people taken from us in so short a period of time is heartbreaking. But what's all the more upsetting are the fake reports of the deaths of Jeff Goldblum and Natalie Portman last week and George Clooney and Rick Astley this week.
Who's Rick Astley? He's a crooner who's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" sparked a kind of online link trick called "Rick Rolled" where you would click on a link thinking you were going to see, say, the Economist magazine, and instead you got the YouTube video of Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up". But the news reports are fake, someone on the CNN iReport used their platform to create a false AP news story that Astley was dead. That was sad and really not nice at all.
What's going on here with these fake reports?
Some idiots out there think these acts, which have ran Twitter crazy, are funny. They're not. Suppose someone did that to your Mom and dad; put their names out there and have them subject to a negative hashtag reporting their deaths? Let's say your cell phone battery went out and you could not confirm the caller? You'd be pretty upset yourself.
So if that upsets you, imagine how the other people feel.
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