Media Missteps in Connecticut Shooting Coverage

With a national tragedy on the scale of the mass shooting in Newtown (CT), the public has come to expect a constant flow of information about the who, what and why of the day’s events. Unfortunately, the frantic pace often comes at the expense of fact checking. From the shooter’s identity to the number of deaths, misinformation about the tragedy’s events spread like wildfire from the social Web to leading media outlets.