By JAKE COYLE
September 11, 2010
More than 16,000 people have clicked that they "like" the Facebook page named "International Burn a Koran Day." It exclaims that "Islam is of the devil."
The page was reviewed by Facebook but allowed to remain because it doesn't violate the site's terms of service.
How the plans of a pastor with a very small following in Gainesville, Fla., became national news has been debated by the media and its critics. The origins of the story — which began in Florida and has spread to Afghanistan — have been traced like a disease outbreak.
But Sarah Lacy, a writer at the tech blog Techcrunch, wrote on Thursday that "the media-audience infinite loop," not the media, should be blamed.
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