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.”
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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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And what's more, she voted AGAINST Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Not the sort of Congress Critter a person of the Right would choose to shoot, IMHO.
Seriously....could it possibly get any *more* obvious which side wanted her dead?!?
I’m no fan of dems but I find myself being even more grateful for her survival with each passing moment.
NPR has been erroneous news for a long time.. Par for the course.
The left always kills its own first... usually, and in this case, for not being left enough. Some need to re-read “Darkness At Noon” for insights on how these people think... suggested reading for all leftists-in-waiting and their personal futures.
They mentioned twice within a few seconds that Giffords was "pro choice" , (what that had to do with anything is beyond me), while also mentioning that she was pro 2nd amendment and played a sound bite of an interview of Giffords explaining why she was pro 2nd amendment.
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