{"id":33936,"date":"2011-05-03T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=33936"},"modified":"2011-05-03T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:18:40","slug":"how-to-read-the-bin-laden-coverage-skeptically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/how-to-read-the-bin-laden-coverage-skeptically\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read the Bin Laden coverage skeptically"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\"\"he snuffing of Osama Bin Laden has already filled the Snake River Canyon with a torrent of coverage from newspapers, the Web, and television. The news output will only expand in the coming days, and as it does, remain skeptical about it.<\/p>\n

As we know from the coverage of other major breaking-news events\u2014the Mumbai massacre, the death of Pat Tillman, Hurricane Katrina, the rescue of Jessica Lynch, to cite just a few examples\u2014the earliest coverage of a big story is rarely reliable.<\/p>\n

I mean this as no criticism. I’m grateful to the reporters who are feeding our demand for Bin Laden news on extremely tight deadlines. But the fog of breaking news almost always cloaks the truth, especially when the deadline news event is a super-top-secret military operation conducted by commandos halfway around the world and the sources of the sexiest information go unnamed.<\/p>\n

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