Insight's defense? It didn't actually say Obama had attended a madrassa, it merely . But the story still managed to spark the myth Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, which the echo chamber happily repeated.

After more than 20 years of , Insight Magazine closed up shop in May 2008. But the myth remains. According to a Pew Research Center survey published this month, ; for evangelicals and Republicans, the number is closer to one out of five.

August 2008: Most people don't get to read their own obituaries. But for Steve Jobs, the normal rules just don't apply. Like last August, when Bloomberg News prematurely for the Apple icon.

Apparently, a reporter who was updating Jobs' memorial hit the "publish" button by accident. Bloomberg caught the mistake within minutes, though not before .