Public mood: everyone’s on a short fuse

Two La Presse editorialists are concerned about the public mood Friday. Nathalie Collard spins off the story of the man punching the young soccer referee to generalize to the anger and volatility seen on social media. Patrick Lagacé, in a piece titled Le monde est pas bien, recounts how he reported a death threat to police, only to find that not only did the menacer not know him, he had not even read him, but had read something on social media criticizing him, and had responded by sending a death threat. Lagacé includes some footnotes to articles and stories supporting his conclusion that the world has a short fuse.