[Rhino55]

"What's shocking to me is the blatant manipulation of the mob."

Wait. What? You're "shocked"?

Um.

This is 2012, you know. Mobs are made to be manipulated. That's pretty much the whole point of a mob. Mobs do not win Nobel Prizes in physics. They do not negotiate peace treaties.

And, by the way, journalism is essentially the precursor to 4chan (trolls trolling trolls trolling...)

Case it point: a well-known quote about journalistic trolling turns out to be a troll. http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2429

tl;dr get over yourself