"If it's on the internet, it must be true." As you pick yourslf back up off the floor (where you were ROTFL), take seriously the idea that this starting premise is the subject of the author's sceptical rant. The article concludes with the image of the author hauling her child off to the (now empty) library and is filled with urgings of the need for critical reflection. The author also wants us to linger more, to read more carefully and constructively, than we do on the internet. To pause and ask who wrote this item and why they wrote it. Well. If you ask me, poeple have a much healthier scepticism of online information than they ever did of the printed word. Yes, they read more quickly and even superficially. That's what allows them to get a somewhat wider view of the world. People linger - even online - when there's something worth lingering over.
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