Stumbled across this great piece by Douglas Adams (by way of Martin Pool’s blog), titled “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet”.

Not only did he write some of the stupidist, funniest books ever, he was also a smart guy. The point that grabbed me most:

What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make.