LAX Shooting Frames Latest MSM/Twitter Breaking-News Fail
It’s by now an all-too-familiar breaking news scenario. Something wholly or partially incorrect gets tweeted out; one or more mainstream media (MSM) outlets pick up on that information; the information is then proven to be false.
Today’s snarled outlet is Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. As horrible shooting events unfolded this morning at LAX’s Terminal 3, the paper picked up on a since-deleted tweet from @HeadIineNews (spelled with a capital “i” in place of the usual small “l” in headline).
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