You suppose to get two or three sources to confirm a story or at least seek the right sources on a subject as media use to do.....Mitchell showed her incompetence in not verifying the information with other sources that HOTAIR obviously went to to confirm and she is bias in rushing to report it
Checkmate
Bet there were sparks flying from her little shoes as she ran to report it.
There’s only one source for the confirmation that she was invited — the person who invited her. How could there be a second source for that? “Yes, he told me she was invited” — 2nd hand source.
HOTAIR did manage to find the person who invited her. Apparently, anybody can invite someone to the event, as opposed to having the organization invite her. I don’t think she ever said she was officially invited by the organization, so there wasn’t really a dispute there.
But if there is one official spokesperson, why would you be looking for multiple sources? The press doesn’t poke around for a 2nd source to verify the President’s pronouncements after the press secretary tells them what the administration is doing. And if you ask someone what they are doing, and they say they are going to dinner, you don’t try to find a second source to verify that that’s what the person was doing.
My point is that you don’t always have a two-source rule, when you are looking at the official pronouncements of an organization, you report what the spokesperson says.
In my opinion, Andrea’s sin was in being so gleeful that she didn’t bother to check if anybody had actually claimed Sarah was invited.