“From He shot everyone with the pistols - the rifle was in the trunk
to
He shot everyone with the rifle.
When will any of these news sources get the story straight? It was bad enough yesterday, when it changed hour to hour, but its still changing materially today.”
That thought has certainly crossed my mind.
It seems the media writes their stories the way they want the stiuation to have happened, not what really happened.
Take this very thread for example.
The story was originally published with the title posted, and the words also
I found this out by doing a search:
News for The gunman in the Newtown massacre had ...The top linked story (from which this tread was taken) has changed to:
Newtown gunman had 'altercation' with school staff day before massacre - U.S. News
NBCNews.com - 21 hours agoUPDATED 12:30 p.m. ET: The gunman in the Newtown massacre had an "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary ...
The New Civil Rights Movement - 21 hours ago
They use the term "updated" to mean "too many people know the real story so we had to change ours.Newtown gunman forced his way into school, police say
UPDATED 3:21 p.m. ET: Newtown massacre gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, where his youngest victims were shot at close range, law enforcement officials told NBC News.
The chilling details emerged as authorities prepared to release the names of the 20 children and six adults slaughtered Friday at the Connecticut school.
Google saves the old story, but the link goes to the new story
Here is what I searched, it clears things up.
Google search on The gunman in the Newtown massacre had an "altercation" with four staff members
Mods, can we leave the "wrong" title up on this one?