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Liveblogging the end of the world: citizen journalism may kill us all

If you’ve seen this year’s ultra-mega disaster film “2012″ you already know that the “crazy” end-of-the-world conspiracist played by Woody Harrelson meets his end as a supervolcano’s fireball swallows him whole.

If you haven’t, well… now you know.

But anybody can die. It’s how Harrelson’s character dies that gives us a foreshadowing of our own fate in such a disaster.

Harrelson plays Charlie Frost, a loony who runs a homemade radio station from the back of his RV. With a portable broadcasting unit strapped on his back, he climbs a mountain peak to describe his destruction first-hand to anyone who might be listening.

And then the signal dies. Continue reading ‘Liveblogging the end of the world: citizen journalism may kill us all’


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