![]() At first step it was thought that Vice President Johnson had also been shot in the attack. And they pretty much make the same choice in every medium, on every platform, in every era.ĬORRESPONDENT: Rumors ran rampant. But what the news media do in the face of it, that’s a choice. Breaking news, whether of a violent storm or a vicious gunman, creates chaos and confusion. It stunk.ĬORRESPONDENT: We’re looking at a situation possibly involving multiple shooters here at the Washington Navy Yard.ĬORRESPONDENT: It’s believed that whoever this gunman is, a man in his fifties who – is carrying three weapons, a handgun, a shotgun and an assault rifle.īROOKE GLADSTONE: Wrong about his age, wrong about the assault rifle.ĬORRESPONDENT: Earlier today, some media outlets were tweeting out that the shooter was a named Raleigh Chance.īROOKE GLADSTONE: Now, that is dangerously wrong. ![]() MAN: Someone dressed in a black top, black jeans, what does that say, if anything, about a possible motive or, or whatever? Can we begin to draw any initial conclusions? And I want to alert our viewers, sometimes these initial conclusions can, obviously, be very, very wrong.īROOKE GLADSTONE: The initial coverage of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard Monday by contractor Aaron Alexis bore all the earmarks of classic reportage in the midst of these all too frequent horrors. ![]()
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