Your expectations of journalists must be very high to be surprised by this sort of thing... Look at the reporting of any breaking news, especially emergency si

Your expectations of journalists must be very high to be surprised by this sort of thing... Look at the reporting of any breaking news, especially emergency situations: the talking heads will repeat any rumor or scrap of news like it's truth, just to keep eyeballs glued to their station/site/Twitter/etc. And afterwards there is no accountability whatsoever. I agree with you that it's not the right thing to do.