[Biggirl]

Translation: With the social media getting the word out a whole lot faster, it will get much harder to report “just the facts” only.

[circlecity]

Rule 6: Immediately disregard anything that comes from Geraldo Rivera’s mouth.

[PapaBear3625]

Television is a bad medium for reporting an evolving story in the 21st century. You keep repeating the same thing over and over, for people just tuning in, and this bores people who were wondering WTF is going on with other news beyond the "big story".

The web is a much better vehicle for disseminating an evolving event, since you can just append the new items to the original story, and edit those items that turn out to be based on bad info.

This is why, when something happens, I just go and open up tabs to FR and Drudge.

[glorgau]

Rule 6: Sound out phonetic pronunciations of asian names somebody gives you. For example:

Captain Sum Ting Wong

[glorgau]

Rule 6: Sound out phonetic pronunciations of asian names somebody gives you. For example:

Captain Sum Ting Wong