How the Entertainment Cycle Brings Out the Best & Worst Journalism

By: Kelly McBride | Poynter

First something crazy happens. It could be DeAndre Jordan making a big dunk, or Miley Cyrus twerking. On Sunday, it was the first Indian-American woman winning the Miss America pageant. Second, the Internet reacts.

We say this as if we are all in on the joke — the Internet isn’t really a thing that can react; it’s all the people who are on the Internet who are reacting.