Media mistakes
Following an erroneous report about a congressman’s death and the suspension of an AP reporter for an inaccurate story, Maggie Haberman, Andrew Lih and guest host David Folkenflik discuss how errors like these are made and how they are addressed.
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This was an important topic and a valuable look at Twitter-fueled pressures to post quickly. One weakness with this segment's review of the premature death of Congressman Young was the failure to explore a couple of things: a.) assuming Peter Schorsch's report was the sound that started the stampede, what was the appropriateness of his reliance on two distant family relations (how distant?) and what was their source, and b.) what were the sources for NBC and Fox reports? I was disappointed you did not probe further into the phenomenon of what I suspect happened - that reporters were simply repeating what other reporters were saying without attribution. I don't mean re-tweeting, but original unattributed reports such as Chuck Todd's post or Greta Sustern's report. Few useful lessons learned from this Reliable Sources treatment, but thanks for examining the topic.