When social media and and old media team up, the results can be wrong.
Poynter's Jeff Sonderman reports that news organizations around the country posted Facebook information about the wrong guy in connection with the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
There was also early speculation that the shooter was an angry father and, that the guns were all acquired legally. Yet, I heard the spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police tell reporters today that they had not finished investigating the history of each of the weapons. It is now assumed that the alleged shooter, Adam Lanza, was mentally ill. A logical assumption but, it is speculation at this point.
Whatever happened to checking the facts and confirming sources?
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