Posted on 01/08/2011 7:27:33 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
NPR said late Saturday that it regrets reporting the “erroneous news” that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been killed in the Tucson shooting — reports that were picked up and repeated by several top news organizations.
“At two o’clock, we had two sources [saying] that the congresswoman died, the Pima County Sheriff’s office and a congressman’s office, and we went with those in good faith,” said Anna Christopher, an NPR spokeswoman. “Soon after, as we started reporting more, we reported that she had not been killed, and we regret the erroneous news.”
Christopher added that NPR quickly corrected its report, and “we already started internal discussions into the sequence of events in deciding to report that she had been killed.”
SNIP
The wildly diverging reports reflected the challenges of breaking large and sensitive news in a high-pressure, 24-hour news cycle, said NPR’s media reporter David Folkenflik on his Twitter feed.
“What we’re seeing is the process of reporting breaking news, at times shakily, in real time,” Folkenflik wrote. “Before cable & web, this would have played out far more out of sight. Doesn’t exempt journalists from having to report w great care.”
The erroneous report came just two days after NPR’s senior vice president for news, Ellen Weiss, resigned in the wake of an outside law firm’s report criticizing NPR’s handing of its firing of Juan Williams.
Sarah Palin appeared to have gotten caught up in the mistaken reporting, releasing a statement on her Facebook just after 3 p.m. offering “sincere condolences to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona.”
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Clarence "Vitriol" Dupdik's office.
Yep
>> NPR: The wildly diverging reports reflected the challenges of breaking large and sensitive news in a high-pressure, 24-hour news cycle, said NPR’s media reporter David Folkenflik on his Twitter feed.
Polished, shiny pile of bull****.
NPR, the rumors of your COMPETENCE are greatly exaggerated......
These twits have to try to work in a Palin slam angle any way they can.
Half of the blasted internet was posting messages of grief and condolence based on the mistaken reporting. That’s the fault of the MISTAKEN REPORTING!
Maybe we should kill NPR’s public funding?
“NPR said late Saturday that it regrets reporting the “erroneous news””
They could say this every day.
So is Gifford dead or alive???
They ‘Should” say this every day.
She is still alive and the reports are, she will make it.
Fox wasn’t any better....
I’m just grateful she’s NOT dead.
Have they found who did it yet and how many, if any, others actually died?
[I just got home....sorry to be ignorant of the updates]
Defunding can start right here,,,
I used to run a newsroom at a very small radio station. We never reported news on “good faith”.
Just hard facts.
Evidently, a major “news operation”, such as NPR, isn’t bound by such silly boundaries....
The Sheriff said she was dead. It’s hard to fault reporters who reported that. That’s my opinion.
I noticed that Obama kept using the term “Was” while talking about Giffords today.
Indeed.
I don't think the commie 'RATS care. They are looking for a "bounce" in the polls for their commie agenda. This should give them a lot of mileage if they can exploit it quickly and successfully. This was their Murrah Building. Their 9/11. Their wish come true.
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