Kristen Stewart trashes the military.
Kristen Stewart is a terrorist sympathizer.
Kristen Stewart calls members of armed forces "simple."
These are just a few comments that have made their way around the blogosphere and elicited strong responses from people around the country on social media. Fox News picked up an article that first appeared on Breitbart.com that claimed Kristen Stewart (or as I like to call her, K-Stew) "indicated that terrorists at Guantanamo Bay are misunderstood and that joining the United States Armed Forces is the job of a simpleton."
Now that's a bold assumption and accusation to make… mostly because it's simply not true.
The author of the post, Kelli Serio, draws these outlandish and quite frankly, distorted opinions from an article that she clearly didn't read. If she actually bothered to read the article (which appears on The Daily Beast) she would have noticed that Stewart is explicitly talking about the character she plays in this movie and how that character thinks and operates. In no way does Stewart claim any of these things to be her personal opinion. Unfortunately though, like most things, something got lost in translation. I don't claim to know what Ms. Serio's motivations were when she decided to write this article, but I will say this: she'd either have to be one of these so called "simpletons" herself to really misunderstand Stewart's quotes OR she had to purposefully and maliciously twist Stewart's quotes in order to fit her agenda and create a firestorm among the masses.
The main problem though, with expelling such careless journalism, is not the smear campaign that she's clearly started against Stewart. It's the fact that she calls herself a journalist and isn't held accountable for what she puts out there. I find that the casual reader tends to only read as far as a headline (and maybe a few lines into the article) and foolishly trusts that what they just read is in fact the whole story. When it comes to celebrity gossip, most of what is out there is completely fabricated or distorted. But for some reason, people don't know that and they believe it anyway. Some could argue that people might be a little less inclined to readily believe something if the news is coming from a tabloid magazine or TMZ. But if it's coming from Fox News, a reputable (I use that term loosely) news source, then it must be true!
In an age where information goes viral in the blink of an eye, where do we draw the line?
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