Tattle: Don't believe everything you read, or see on YouTube
Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth II Posted: December 21, 2012
TATTLE LOVES the Internet as much as the next guy but
occasionally it can be misleading. With big news stories,
Internet sources are so eager to get stories up quickly, a lot
of them turn out to be completely wrong.  With the recent
Newtown massacre, for instance, we quickly learned that the
shooter's mother was a teacher at the school, that his father
was killed in New Jersey, that he left his mother's Bushmaster
rifle in the car and that his name was Ryan.  That's Oh-for-
four.  Then yesterday, much to our chagrin, we learned that the
YouTube video of the eagle swooping and snatching a toddler from
a Montreal park was a hoax.  Damn you, Internet, why must you
mock our trust?  The video's creators said it was made as a part
of a class project to create a viral video hoax.  "We had no
idea what was coming," a giddy Normand Archambault told the
Canadian Press.  Archambault said he and f