Flashback! Just a little recap: A new rendition of the Megan Mier story appears in the New Yorker magazine. She lays the story out in a way that's compassionate and fair and circumspect, unlike many of those bloodthirsty hounds that want to pillory adolescent suspects in this cyber tragedy without looking at the underling cause. New Yorker Staff Writer Lauren Collins pins the sins -- or contradictions -- to those who've committed them, and probes at the actual causes behind the suicide, but does not revert to castigation.

This would make for a good read if you've never heard the agonizing story; offers some incite into the MySpace Zeitgeist; and and makes a good lesson for a magazine re-write (structuring, points of view, etc.). Overall, there is not much new information here, except when we get to the last graf:

"One girl who had been involved in the fight on the night of Megan’s suicide wrote to Tina:

" 'Hi . . . you might not know me . . . but [my friend] used to live in missouri and be friends with your wonderful daughter . . . [we] get made fun of too. being called whores etc . . . etc. but we’re doing everything we can to stop bullying . . . because we dont want something this terrible to have to happen to anyone again . . . we’re going to counciling . . . and i think we’re really gunna start to make a difference.' "