The Goldfish Chronicles

The comments to this make for very interesting reading:

Ugandan king ‘not backing down’

First instinct: Yikes, things getting scary in Uganda.
Second instinct: Of course it’s the Internet, so untrusted sources are taken with a pinch of salt.
Third instinct: Yet the crowd can be trusted to self-manage; ie) the comments have a common message to them rather than a typical zealot/flamewar.
Fourth instinct: But there is an editor, so a series of conflicting messages can be massaged into a common message.

So it comes down to whether I trust the BBC to edit. I largely trust the BBC (more than others anyway) to report without bias. Why do I find myself not immediately applying that to the editing? Odd.

Summary: Yikes, looks like things are getting scary in Uganda.

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