Today's story about Former Enron CEO Ken Lay's death from a heart attack has been discussed in numerous blogs. Ken Lay has been one of today's top searches on Technorati today along with North Korea, the World Cup and Clay Aiken. Ken Lay was also a friend of President George W. Bush. The White House has downplayed the relationship between Lay and Bush and continue to remain quiet about it even now after Lay's death. This relationship has made Enron issues a hot topic in political blogs. The Enron convictions were also heavily covered by bloggers in May. Reuters reports that Wikipedia had quickly ran through several versions of what happened to Ken Lay before noon including suicide.
At 10:09 a.m., it said "no further details have been officially released" about the death.
Two minutes later, it said: "The guilt of ruining so many lives finally led him to his suicide."
At 10:12 a.m., this was replaced by: "According to Lay's pastor the cause was a 'massive coronary' heart attack."
By 10:39 a.m., Lay's entry said: "Speculation as to the cause of the heart attack lead many people to believe it was due to the amount of stress put on him by the Enron trial." This statement was later dropped.
The current Wikipedia page for Ken Lay can be found here. And people say (see here, here and here) the blogosphere is not credible. User generated content can have errors and falsehoods just like blogs but individual blogs and bloggers can earn respect and credibility from readers.
