"This information was made available from a person with credibility for something, but speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not yet supposed to reveal the information he is revealing...

Does it say anything that we now refer to it as "The mainstream media"...?
When I was young, we called it "The News"....

Of course, we also just had things reported back then. Nobody had to listen to what Chet Huntey, David Brinkley or Walter Kronkite's opinion was on anything. They just kind of expected you to form your own.

That cracked me up too.....just sayin......

This is one of the many reasons people should avoid CNN.

Fox never reported an arrest had been made. The FBI reprimanded CNN and AP.

I did not know that the FBI has that authority. Was that statement reported by MSNBC?

I have no idea. I don't think this is a legitimate news outlet.

Fox did report...their headline said "CNN is reporting an arrest" and the story went on to say that Fox was unable to verify if it was accurate.

:faints:

too many camels restricting your ability to breathe this morning?

:feints:

Nice! Too bad people want to paint Fox as the unreliable reporter of information.

Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in awhile.

If only Fox, et al. returned to the profession of reporting the news rather than the business of making the news we would all be better off.

and CNN and MSNBC are any better?

i think by et al. he was including all news organizations

The local Boston Fox station sent me an alert on my phone as I signed up for them that an arrest had been made yesterday afternoon.

I think the wording is very important. I was watching Fox all yesterday and they never once reported an arrest had been made. They reported that CNN was reporting an arrest had been made, but they could not confirm through their sources.

I am not saying this is the text message you received but they are limited to 160 letters. Thus, the wording may have suggested it, FOX themselves never reported that.

That does not mean an affiliate could not have jumped the gun. However, what I take issue with is associating it with FOX (although it would be an affiliate of theirs). When it comes to the major news outlets only the AP and CNN ever reported this.

Some liberal news outlets accused Fox of reporting this but they never actually did. They stated that CNN has reported an arrest was imminent.

The Boston Globe, (and later reported through BG Huffington) are the only ones who said it was Fox, so it might have been your local affiliate.

The FBI reprimanded AP and CNN.

RH - i think you may be splitting hairs, but on the Fox website (www.foxnews.com, so not the local version) yesterday, their headline read "CNN reporting arrest..." even though they are attributing this to CNN, they are "reporting" it, using CNN as the source for their "report" on their website.



not that who is and isn't reporting it really means a hill of beans...

I like "The Daily Beast."

^^^^ the Daily Beast.

I like the Onion.

I love onion rings.

The Onion is the only source of true news.

I agree HG. I have the LOCAL fox affiliate app on my phone. I get alerts all the time from them. Yesterday I received one that said "suspect arrested". I'm not suggesting the parent FOX news reported anything directly. Only posted b/c I got that on my phone from Fox Boston. Doesn't matter who or what news agency reports or reported false info, since this happened Monday there have been many "jump the gun" situations and non-truths, by them all at one point. As others have said, nowadays, it's all about who can be credited with reporting it first, regardless of its accuracy. That's just my personal opinion, for whatever little that is worth.I learned my lesson to not make BOL posts until it's official.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/teen-boston-marathon-bomber/story?id=18990057

do they learn nothing from richard jewell