Miley Cyrus: Not Dead

Dear Internet: I know a lot of famous people have been dying these past few days, but you really need to stop trying to kill celebrities via stories on the so obviously fakety fake I can’t even begin to express it site MediaFetcher.com. First it was Jeff Goldblum, then it was Harrison Ford; now (well, as of last night) it’s Disney-bred tween sensation Miley Cyrus. All of these people are alive and well. One would think that the confusion over whether she passed away in a Titanic-like yacht attack or a plane crash in Denver would make people realize that hey, this whole thing might be a hoax, but perhaps I’m expecting too much from the info-sucking masses these days. Anyway, Miley was fine as of eight hours ago, when she was asking her older half-sister Brandi to come visit her in Savannah, Ga., where she’s currently filming a movie. See? Alive! Although given that this is something like the fifth or sixth time the Internet has tried to strike her down over the past year, I’d think her resolve is waning a bit. Oh, also? Britney Spears isn’t dead either. Although at least that bit of net-spawned cluelessness came via a semi-believable hack of the pop star’s Twitter account, and not people blindly pinging a poorly written, obviously fake link around the Net. Britney Spears Not Dead [Mashable]