When rumors make news.

Reports on events in 1996 which indicate that one must read what is on the Internet with care. The Internet, not a news service, but a means of communication; Examples of information taken from the Internet which lack evidence; Pierre Salinger's remarks about the cause of TWA Flight 800 and the rumors which the Internet had been carrying for months; The reaction of technophiles to criticism of the Internet; Learning to discern fact from fiction.