I usually can't stand Bill O'Reilly but his comments last night were right on the money - with the growth of 24/7 "news" there is this symbiotic relationship with the cable news shows and these headline grabbing stories and the potential nutcases looking for their 15 mins. BOR was very concerned about where this is all taking us and I can't help but agree.
I don't know if you're talking about the same segment I saw last night (didn't catch the whole show), but on this one, both he and Jane Hall agreed that you can't trust anything the media reports. They concentrated on the lack of proof for these stories, but I would have also gone more into the fake photos and made up articles angle--they did touch on these SLIGHTLY, but an entire hour could be devoted to the unreliability of media reports.
On this case alone:
1. Wednesday evening it was said the dna tests had already been done and proved Karr did it.
** By yesterday, they were saying there was no dna testing and no results at all.
2. Yesterday it was reported that Karr said he'd picked her up at school, and drugged her.
** Today, they are saying HE didn't say this at all, but the Thai police said it, thinking they were reporting known events--and of course at least the drugging didn't happen at all as per the autopsy, so they made it up.
I could add several other "changes" to this story, but you get the idea.
Until there's a trial (well, IF there's a trial), we're not going to be able to trust much that comes out. MSM is too lazy or arrogant to research the facts, and they don't seem to do any fact checking beyond getting the name right. (Sometimes they even fail on that!)