The Back To The Future Hoax
I know, I’m adding to all the mess of bandwagon-jumping today, but Buzzfeed’s article on the man who told the internet that Back To The Future Part 2 was July 5 2010… and the internet believed him. Being first to a juicy factoid like Future Day could result in a big tweet, and that meant new followers, new readers. Without resources, scoops at Total Film were rare, and we often had to rely on bigger publications to source news. I could have googled. I should have googled. But being first was more important. Sometimes when a mad professor turns up
