Enough with the Internet rumors already

[snopes]

Urban legend Web sites debunk the [ban on religious programming] rumor as well. A couple of times in the past, I’ve called the FCC — and this back in the day when it cost me long distance charges to make the call — and been told by a friendly but tired-sounding employee there was no truth to the rumor. I did that so I could tell friends and church members that the FCC told me the rumor was false.

Didn’t matter. One woman who was spreading the rumor challenged me when I told her it was false and how I knew.

“When did you call?” she said. About a year before, I told her.

“Well, a petition could have been filed since you talked to them. Besides, how do you know they were telling you the truth?”

No amount of explanation was good enough for her and never would be.

Another rumor making the rounds these days has the potential for long-term repetition.

Hardly a week goes by that I don’t receive an e-mail telling me that Barack Obama can’t be president because he’s not a natural born citizen. Often the e-mail includes a prefatory note demanding to know why we don’t report this earth-shattering story.

I’ll tell you why. Because it’s not true and that reality has been reported multiple times in several media outlets.

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