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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow they are saying Nancy Lanza did not work at that school.
So much misinformation.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/14/3965786/school-shooting-reported-in-newtown.html#storylink=cpy
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)It's been appalling. I know everyone wanted information, but bad info is worse than no info. Our journalists need to learn this apparently.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)In the chaos of a shooting scene there are always a lot of rumors flying some of which are true and some of which are false, the media really needs to do a better job of holding back on reporting information until they know it is accurate.
I feel sorry for the brother of the shooter, not only did he lose his family but he was fingered as the perpetrator when he does not seem to have any role in the shootings at all. The media bringing his name into the story will likely ruin his life.
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)Is the 24/7 news cycle and the cellphone photo culture skewing people's view of reality? People seem surprised that reporters or officials get the details incorrect during the first hours, days, or even months after a tragedy occurs. Reality is that we learn as we go along and look at the available sources.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)It was a horrific tragedy. And misinformation is common when tragedies like this happen. I saw the guy who wrote the book Columbine on Chris Hayes this morning. He said most of what we have all assumed about that tragedy is false. The killers weren't goth kids, they weren't bullied and they didn't target the athletes at the school. I had no idea. Now I want to read that book.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I would rather they waited to check and recheck facts than just put something out there.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Then a couple of years ago she left that job to be home with her son. Maybe she still sub'd there tho.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)he must have been more ill and/or disabled than most of us could imagine.
I wonder if his father was involved in his life.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Apparently they did not know her.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)she recieved a generous alimony, $260,000 per year. She did not have to work. I don't have the link to the article, sorry, I will try to find it again. Ex-husband was very generous and provided beyond what the settlement dictated. They had an amicable divorce.
Edit: Heres the article
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/adam-lanza-20-deeply-disturbed-kid-article-1.1220752
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)It's a state law where I teach and I would imagine most states have similar laws. You can't just walk into a school and volunteer anymore. They do a background check (some districts make you pay for it) and you are given an ID and the school is notified you have been cleared and can volunteer.
So she would have been on a list. The district says she wasn't.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)and we don't have to have ID's at all. You do need to be screened and finger printed to be a sub, which I also do in CT.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)They know you.
And it could be that CT doesn't have this requirement yet. But I suspect that's going to change.....
ananda
(28,873 posts)She probably didn't go there every day, but some of the time to help the teachers out.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)I doubt that's true either. They don't even attempt to verify information these days.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Is it less tragic if she DID work there?
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Had she been a teacher .... what difference does it make? She is dead, children are dead, teachers are dead
It is horrific, there was a slaughter of innocents ...
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Tweets, word of mouth, anything is fair game. No fact checking is done at all.
This was also a problem during Hurricane Sandy. They'll report anything they hear.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Instead of real journalism. Lazy asses.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I realize that sometimes facts are wrong at first, but they got almost nothing right: The ID of the shooter, the number of shooters (intial reports said there were two), that his mother taught there and was gunned down in her classroom, that his father was dead at home, that the shooter had a girlfriend who was missing/unaccounted for, now she's not a teacher at all... The incompetence of the media (and intial police work) is stunning.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)notice that on 9/11 all the news TV chiefs got on a conference call and agreed to "no scoops" they shared info...and they told Fox News to STOP SHOWING THE JUMPERS FOR GOD'S SAKE
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)allrevvedup
(408 posts)I'd be interested in knowing how the "mother's beloved students" story caught on and why no one corrected the record yesterday, for example, after NPR interviewed a witness, second-grade teacher Abby Clements, at length, and replayed excerpts of the interview several times an hour. Highlights included the story of the open intercom relaying the shots and screams, "and there were a lot of gunshots." Here's a link to the original 14 minute KPCC phone interview:
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2012/12/14/29703/26-reported-dead-including-children-in-connecticut/
The interviewer asks Clements about Lanza around 6:00, and she says she doesn't recognize the name, "but we're all trying to figure out what happened," and the interviewer simply moves on.
CincyDem
(6,385 posts)..."it was an unorganized protest over a controversial movie"...no wait..."it was a coordinated attack on our embassy"...no wait..."it was confusing and in the first 24 hours we didn't really know what was going on".
My point is that we dumped Susan Rice because she didn't have 100% of the facts correct in the 24 hours following an event that happened half way around the world. Yet here we sit with a horrid, gut-wrenching example of just how hard it is to get all the facts 100% correct in the early moments of confusion.
Maybe McLame and Lindsey should launch an investigation in to this. I'm sure their NRA handlers would love that it would redirect the public conversation away from the truth...the NRA, as with may right wing extremist groups, is "on the wrong side of history" and must go.