Sowing Mayhem, One Click at a Time – NYTimes.com

—

by

Trent
in

Sowing Mayhem, One Click at a Time

Charles C. Johnson, a blogger based in California, may be the ultimate expression of a certain kind of citizen journalism — one far more toxic than we’re accustomed to seeing.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/business/media/sowing-mayhem-one-click-at-a-time.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

The Internet has given us many glorious things: streaming movies, multiplayer games, real-time information and videos of cats playing the piano. It has also offered up some less edifying creations: web-borne viruses, cybercrime and Charles C. Johnson.