'Good that the jerk died' -- When Web links go bad

May 16, 2012 11:14

The Indian Express published a story, filed from Lucknow, about the son of a local BJP bigwig who died after a security guard at a hospital shot him. The gunfight began after another guard told him and his flunkies to move his car from an illegal parking spot. The situation escalated, the goons beat the first guard, somebody drew his gun and that was that. The Express told a straight story, but when the Web link (or "URL') circulated on Twitter, someone made a change that made it look like the Express was expressing an opinion.

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