Rush to be first (was:Re: Severin's first night as a national talk host)

[Larry Weil]

At 3:14 AM -0500 1/4/06, Bob Nelson wrote:

>  and then Hannity delayed by some 9
>hours. The news had already broken that 12 of the 13 miners had been
>found alive, but we were listening to something from 3 pm, well
>before that news broke.

Except that in the rush to be first, everybody got the story wrong. 
The sad news this morning is that only one of the miners was found 
alive, and in critical condition.  Which also says something sadly 
about the critical condition of news reporting these days.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH