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What I learned today is that moving into 2011 it is even easier for shady operatives to send phony stories up the stovepipe of stenography media than it was two years ago, or even a year ago. Linkbait is increasingly trumping basic journalistic standards such as fact checking. Drudge still rules their world.
I also learned that a strong pushback works.
But this is not a remedy. Getting corrections after the fact doesn't mitigate the damage that was already done to the truth.
What does work is the marginalization that comes with the absence of credibility. It's a big internet, and the beauty of it is that anyone can set up shop and write whatever; it's only when others give it credence that it matters.
For example, after today, media outlets here and nationally who take anything NHJournal says seriously deserve to be laughed at.