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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According to CNN he was a right winger tea party hater racist who shot her.
According to his own writings and postings, he is an anarchist, socialist.
He likes Hitler and Marx.
He did do a lot of drugs and suffered from alcohol poisoning at least once according to one of his high school friends. (BTW she noted he was the biggist lefty)
Just searching the web and found that the Hill is posting on all of these shootings how they are always blaming the right or Tea party when it is in fact the left.
NPR regrets reporting the erroneous news everytime they mention Sarah Palin’s name. That should be the title to their article.
Eh, Fox botched it too but that’s the rule not the exception there for breaking news.
That's a novel concept today. Report the facts rather than hearsay.
The article quotes NPR, "“What we’re seeing is the process of reporting breaking news, at times shakily, in real time". What time is there except real time? The last time I checked, both lies and facts exist in real time.
She supported closed borders.
The Tea party supports closed borders.
In what insane torturous twisting of logic would that even ~remotely~ qualify him as a “Tea party member”?
God, I am SO tired of being lied TO and ABOUT.
The -left- riots, burns and ransacks.
There are innumerable films of it happening.
Are these projection-happy loons blind or blind *and* stupid?
blind or blind *and* stupid?
Yes and yes.
The sheriff is a left-wing retard.
YES my prayer again today, when it was discovered they screwed up, just like we got screwed by them taking our tax dollars.
WEll done!
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WEll done!
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Just a gut reaction, I reckon....:)
Thankfully the news of the Congresswoman's death were greatly exaggerated, lets all pray it stays that way.
NPR and incompetence are synonyms /one in the same , and the tax payer foots the bill, pethetic , get rid of NPR NOW.
Your Tax Dollars (Sadly) At Work
So NPR puts out the bad word and in mitigation says Sarah Palin was caught up in it too? Except that a) Sarah was taking her cue from the reporting YOU set in motion and b) what Sarah said still holds and needs no retraction.
DEFUND NPR.... and, find ways to bankrupt Politico.
Bingo. Let’s be a little cautious here, as I suspect the incompetent unhinged sheriff may have given NPR and others false information in his haste to show this as being caused by right-wing elements.
There is a reason he went off into a rant not once but four times on national TV tonight to blame talk radio and “media”. Could it be guilt or attempt to justify his own incompetence?
The competition to be the first with the most dire news.
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