Opinion: It's time to update Andy Warhol's law - thanks to the Internet, anyone can find 15 minutes of infamy


The trouble is that as quantifiable as the Internet is, its obscurity is maintained by the ineluctable fact of its hopelessly unmanageable vastness. It encompasses the world in a way TV never could. — 3d abstract vector created by pikisuperstar - www.freepik.com

A couple of hours after the horrific Fourth of July parade shooting in prosperous Highland Park, Ill., I watched a video online of a song called On My Mind. It was from a 21-year-old called Awake the Rapper. His real name is the reason I was watching: Robert E. Crimo III, the man taken into custody by police as the Highland Park shooter.

It's hard, if not impossible, to find the video now. The most logical websites — YouTube, for instance — want no part of it.

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