January 2011
3 posts
'A Lesson In Leaping To Conclusions' →
ckanal:
Here’s a solid article by the AP summarizing what went wrong in coverage of the Arizona shooting yesterday, particularly claims by news organizations that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords died when she had not. Social media and a rush to be first contributed to the error. We carried the news briefly ourselves on The Huffington Post, attributing it to NPR, but quickly course-corrected...