Does that mean everyone has to check with the white house before any news can be reported?
That is what I am starting to wonder.
Yeah so some State Dept lackey can go all over the airwaves with their version of the story before the truth leaks out later...
I's settle for old fashioned checking of reliable sources before going on the air with unsubstantiated rumors, and wild a$$ guesses. There has been so much carp put on the air since the first minutes after the bombings that it's hard even now to figure out what was true, and what wasn't. In their rush to be 'first with the story' the news channels often put people on the air who 'heard someone say' something, then they report that,and everyone who hears it considers it fact, and THEY tell others, and there is confusion and suspicion from the get-go.
I've learned to ignore anything that's reported in the first 24 hours after something like this, unless I hear it from the lips of someone who KNOWS something about the situation, and can back up their story with evidence.