It was just announced that this was an Internet hoax. How cruel
It was just announced that this was an Internet hoax. How cruel
What is cruel is people continuing to pass the story on without knowing facts. It is also cruel to discuss someone's death before the family even puts it out there. This place is like a game to see who can announce the death of someone first.
I don't think folks are eager to pass on sad news as this, but there are so many times when the news don't get passed on and we wonder why no one reported it. This one was just a mistake. Generally Rick is right on the money when it come to reporting information. FOr example, he informed us that Linda Howard of High Inergy was ill for a long time with kidney problems which caused her demise. I for one is thankful that he shared the information with us. When the question was brought up about Maurice White I went to several sites to verify the information. I saw it on wikipedia and then it was removed. Once Phillip Bailey verified it on his facebook page I figured it was not true. This was an honest mistke folks with no malice intended.
I am not familiar with that special, so I don't know what happened. But, as with the tweets and Facebook sites, and some irresponsibility of users posting erroneous info about the Newtown, CT shooting, I wish people would be more responsible with what they put out there, because some people take everything they read on sight as gospel.
I agree with some of the opinions above. No one is having a contest to see who can post a death first. That is just morbid. But , knowing that we are all music fans, there are some deaths that are not reported in the main media until days or weeks have passed and then it is just a small blurb. So the people who are posting a death here are doing it , not to be morbid, but to give us info that we are probably interested in.
Unless Ralph is on a holiday break, there is no excuse for him to keep some of these threads up. He could lock them, delete them, or [[this is what I would do) edit the first post at top of thread and saying this
SINCE THIS THREAD WAS POSTED, IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THE REPORT WAS INACURATE, AND THAT MAURICE WHITE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE
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