she didn’t kill Gordon Lightfoot…

One simple little tweet, and look what happens! Rebecca Fleming’s retelling about how she inadvertently touched off a media maelstrom is light and humorous but also deeply aware. You can’t help but like her.

Reminds me of why information literacy is so important, especially now that information (real or fabricated) can be spread with a couple key strokes. Mistakes like this are virtually (no pun intended!) impossible to avoid. We can type way faster than it takes to think through a situation- especially one that seems, on the surface, to be straightforward.

It’s so easy, so human, to make mistakes…