Sound advice from reader WWP, who points out that yesterday’s entry about Julianne Moore replacing Gillian Anderson as agent Scully in the upcoming X-Files movie was taken from a “news” story that was really an April Fool’s joke.
I have so many conflicting feelings about this: relief that it isn’t true; remorse for ever doubting Gillian Anderson in the first place; disillusionment about who you can trust in this world. I mean, it should have been reliable information, right? It was on a web site.
Well,at least I’m not alone in making that kind of mistake.
UPDATE:
Lest anyone get too smug snickering at my gullibility, let me just point out that blogging is hard work. Having to sort real stuff out from fake stuff doesn’t make it any easier. In fact, it’s so stressful that one of my favorite bloggers has decided just to give up altogether. How depressing is that?
What’s that?
What do you mean, “check the date?”
It’s a what?
Oh.
Never mind.