Fuller: The peril of reporting in the Age of Outrage

I admit that half the entertainment value in reading the news online is found in the comments after a story.
There’s a perverse pleasure in seeing people lose their minds, particularly over things that don’t matter. For instance, the New York Times ran a recipe for Texas chili awhile back. One reader was outraged there were beans in it. This devolved into how the Yankees don’t understand the South, and suddenly they were back to fighting the Civil War. Over chili.
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