Add One More Thing to the List of ‘Things the Media Got Wrong About Newtown’

New York News & Features ^ | December 28, 2012 | Dan Amira

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In the hours and days following the Newtown massacre, the media reported a metric [edited] of what were later discovered to be incorrect details, including the identity of the shooter, his mom's connection to the school, where she was killed, how Adam Lanza got into the building, and the weapons he used. Now we can add another one to the list: Adam Lanza was not wearing body armor, but "a fishing type vest, a jacket with a lot of pockets," according to a Connecticut state police spokesman.

It's not exactly clear where the misinformation started, but ABC News reported on the day of the shooting that Lanza was "wearing a bulletproof vest," according to "sources," and Fox 5 News's Ti-Hua Cheng "cited a law enforcement source that Lanza came into the school wearing black clothing over a bullet proof vest."

The media's inadvertent spreading of false information about the Newtown shooting is hardly without precedent. As author Dave Cullen told On the Media last week, much of what we initially heard about the Columbine massacre was flawed, too. "Two loner, outcast goths from the Trenchcoat Mafia went on a revenge slaying where they targeted jocks specifically to pay them back for years of relentless bullying," Cullen recalled. "Everything that I just said is wrong." Nevertheless, Cullen notes that "everyone, almost, still believes" that original narrative, as well as other details of the rampage — such as the girl who was supposedly killed for believing in God — that were later disproved.

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Interesting link, thank you.. The pieces don’t fit, do they.. The worst possible thing happened that would cause maximum outrage against guns and gun owners yet most Americans don’t stop and think about how the massacre defies any logical motive other than to cause a climate against guns. I’m thinking the mastermind of this plot was a foreigner or foreign group, possibly Russian. The Breslan massacre comes to mind where a few hundred children were murdered.

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Ct does not ban black semi auto rifles. They do ban magazine loaded black rifles with pistol grips that have common features of an M4 or M16, such as bayonet lug, flash suppressor, grenade launcher etc etc.

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Investigators plan to interview a pair of adults wounded “in their lower extremities.” The hope is the two — whom authorities have not identified, though a parent last week said one was a vice principal at the school — could, “when it’s medically appropriate,” play a key role in helping to reconstruct what happened, said Vance.