Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head 15 minutes ago...
It was headlined on my yahoo homepage. I clicked on it and now I'm writing a blog.
The yahoo article's been shared over 500 times via facebook, after being published precisely 13 minutes ago. Her wikipedia page is already past tense. It begins, "Gabrielle Giffords (June 8, 1970 - January 8, 2011) was the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district. She was a member of the Democratic Party."
There's no time to digest the happenings, it's just fast food consumption that's skimmed in a blurb, on top of a homepage. It scares me because one moment you're present tense and the next, some anonymous identity is editing your wikipedia page, changing "is" to "was."
UPDATE: Wikipedia re-edited Gabrielle Gifford's page back to the present tense. She's currently in surgery and the digital world awaits further word on her current condition (which is, hopefully, stable).
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