Checking the News?
It’s fair to say NBC has a little egg on their faces. Ok, so how
is information checked on your other stories? What exactly
determines your degree of scrutiny before airing information?
Student admits he lied to TV news shows
By David Montero, Rocky Mountain News
September 28, 2006
The 16-year-old student who told the Today Show this morning that he was in a Platte Canyon High School classroom when Duane Morrison took 6 students hostage yesterday made up the story, his mother said this afternoon.