I think it's a terrific idea, but there's a lot of fear that the competition will get ahead on the story. For some reason, the public is more likely to remember who had it first than they are to remember that the people who had it first were later determined to have made it all up.
Back in the day, we believed that our duty as reporters was to gather the facts and report them, not invent stuff to fill the void while were waiting.
Now the cops just had a news conference and said nothing of having a perp in custody, then they immediately cut to FOx who start reporting a gunman down in Clorado springs and a possible 2nd gunman AND a car with explosives
What a joke, what piss poor reporting. Now FOX utters the acronymn IED