I believe owners of many news outlets would prefer an occasional goof-up like re-tweeting a false story, rather than missing out, even for a few minutes, on a v

I believe owners of many news outlets would prefer an occasional goof-up like re-tweeting a false story, rather than missing out, even for a few minutes, on a very big story. It appears to me that there is a very high cost for news outlets to be late on big stories. So no doubt journalists don't "waste" time in verifying facts.