gordon lightfoot
Rumors that iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died raced across Twitter earlier today, and soon found their way onto several Canwest newspaper websites. However, the stories — the 'Vancouver Sun' quoted Lightfoot's The reports of singer Gordon LIghtfoot's death are greatly exaggerated. News outlets picked up a rumor today that Lightfoot had died. He had not. The rumor may have started on Twitter (it certainly spread there). Several major news outlets erroneously reported that Gordon Lightfoot was dead. None thought to perform the basic journalistic task of confirming the news against, oh say, a medical examiner or a coroner. Perhaps everybody wanted to