Quick answer: No.
Long Answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Even longer answer: The Associated Press is reporting this AM (and Yahoo! News found the need to post the story, too. Let's not leave Yahoo! out of this) that the cousin of an 80s-era rapper (I won't mention his name) was accused of raping someone he met on Twitter.
There are so many things wrong with that sentence.
First, the AP has a problem with bloggers and news aggregators "stealing" their news. That's why I'm not linking to the story. AP, if you want the eyes on your employees' work, do the promo yourself and see how long it takes before the AP is irrelevant. For the most part it already is, of course. They've been leaning toward corporatocracy for a few years only to make huge strides in that direction during the John Solomon Washingt0n Bureau days and with Liz Sidoti following John McCain around the country in 2008 with her version of journalistic fairy dust sprinkling her narrative.
(Yes, it's important to this, it speaks to corporate culture, and AP's is on a downward slide from past heights.)
Second, no one chooses to have their cousin become a rap icon of the 80s. At the same time, no one chooses to have their cousin become an alleged rapist. If this guy isn't related to that guy, there's no national story here. Just because an arrest becomes a matter of public record doesn't mean that it's my business. In fact, it becomes a matter of public record only so that interested parties can be apprised.
Sitting at home in front of your computer reading Yahoo! News doesn't really make you an interested party, it makes you what my Dad calls a butt-in-ski. Your interest is casual, maybe even prurient.
Three, who is meeting anyone for sex on Twitter, where you have only 140 characters? Really? You can decide that you want to have sex with someone based on 140-character notes to one another? That's all you need to jump into bed with someone?
These weren't kids, either. The man is 34 and the woman is 40.
I can't believe that a woman who would meet up with a man for sex in a hotel based on a Twitter relationship actually lived to the age of 40. I'm surprised she didn't die years ago while running with scissors or putting her eye out with a sharp stick.
Okay, stupid story told. I'm done.
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