Where the key word is correct. It would be very easy to spread a bogus story via, e.g. Twitter. It would be debunked quite quickly too -- but the fact that it

Where the key word is correct. It would be very easy to spread a bogus story via, e.g. Twitter. It would be debunked quite quickly too -- but the fact that it can happen devalues the speed with which things are reported. Those in the profession of reporting news do provide the value of actually checking their sources (or, at least, they should).