I’m not a “breaking news” kind of guy. With all the communication we have available to us now from cable news to Twitter to Facebook to newspapers and radio, it is amazing to me how the initial facts of a story so often are flat-out wrong. Perhaps that’s a product of the competitive pressure that permeates newsrooms in a sea of media sources, bloggers, and other “news gatherers” and sharers on the Internet. It’s why I respect public radio, an outlet that more often than not shies away from...



