The story unfolding in Japan and across the Pacific Rim is certainly a fluid one with new developments coming in nearly every minute. But Miami, Ohio based radio station 93.9 MIA (known for their “feel good music with the most variety”) can now confirm that the “Japanese earthquake will have no impact on Ohio.” Yes, a news source in Ohio is no reporting that the Japanese earthquake (and Tsunami) will have no impact on Ohio.

Ink-stained wretches, it’s not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).

How do you turn a routine home burglary in Florida — in which nothing seems to have been stolen, even — into a story of national import? Easy: weave Barack Obama into it. Even if it involves quoting a burglar who is clearly mentally disturbed. Hey, it worked for Angelina Jolie:

Fark, one of the oldest and strangest news aggregators on the Internet, is teaming up with USA Today. But this could just be the beginning. The founder of Fark tells Mediaite that more partnerships with major media outlets are in the works:

The viral posters that compared Obama to the Joker and to Hitler feel tame compared to the latest nasty meme to hit the Internet: insinuations that Glenn Beck “raped and killed a young girl in 1990.”


Update #3, 4:30pm: “Glenn Beck murder” and “Glenn Beck rapist” are now top suggestions when you do a Google search for Glenn Beck.