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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Actually, the media was told by a Ft Hood spokesperson at the first news conference that the shooter was killed. The Army did not correct this, even though they knew otherwise, until another news conference about four hours later.
The blame for this misinformation lies with the military spokesperson, not the media. 
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The alive/dead thing didn't bother me that much and I don't even blame the FBI for perhaps intentionally not saying he is alive. Especially when they were themselves starting an investigation.
I was following the story, obviously because of the start time of the thread, since it first broke and from there it has been nothing but speculation. Which, is not at all something unique to this story these days. It is something that I find really frustrating in this age of 24 hour news. When I went to journalism school my professors would go nuts if every fact we presented hadn't been researched. Obviously,with the need to be the first news station to broadcast a 'fact' they just don't do fact checking in breaking news things these days or at least not to the level they should. So, you have the guy's name in the wrong order for ages, you have speculation on where he was deployed, when..his religion, how long he has been following that religion, etc. All things which spending a decent time developing a story off the air would negate or at least if you got it wrong it wasn't for not trying your best. They go live on air with guests they should have done more screening on. They take calls from so-called witnesses that get air time even though they are simply somebody who lives nearby that knows somebody that somebody told something to.
It is just the way things are now but drives me nuts. I am a news junkie and I love the buzz of a breaking story but I like getting researched reporting rather than just people filling air time until they can report a 'fact'.