In the hurry of publishing the story first they rarely check the facts and to seel it they have to make it sensational (It's not all their fault). Media mostly gives what people want. Now a days they just want to get out of the daily boring routine.
@Mitch
People are so frustrated that they need a target to calm their nerves. That is why you see different persons getting abused (Blame is a small word for what happens) for most of the time what they didnt do.
All the more, his mother was killed, the guy should be totally lost. Anyway, the reputation has already lost. He will be always a brother of the guy who commited such a terrible thing.
I feel really sorry for this person but not because his name was "misplaced", it's just a terribe personal tradegy.What should he feel?And I am suprised that he cares about some strangers' hate messages. That's not the thing. he should be thinking about, or that's the thing?
Hmmm. How would you feel if you were accused of murder on the front page of the New York Times?
Although I do understand that dissing Facebook is a popular passtime, there are more people on Facebook than read the NYT. Becoming infamous, true or not, on Facebook or not, could easily ruin your life.
Social media is so successful precisely because human beings are social.
Many of this was the fault of the media getting the story out there without really checking any information. This age of social media is just something that is part of the times now. Yes information is out there quickly and sometimes corrected quickly but the damage is already done in some cases. This was a special case because of the children and probably spread even faster. It kind of sickens me that the news media was talking about the death toll and if there was more this could be a record for a school mass killing. That and putting kids on the news to describe what they heard is not right. Cover the story, get the facts right and keep young children out of the news. There is nothing good that can come out of this, don't sensationalize the whole tragedy.
False rumors spread fast on social media, but are also corrected fast. In corporate journalism, false rumors hit page one, and then are corrected on page 48, two weeks later.
One of the things I find most discouraging about social media is the Daily Outrage. Every day, something new to be outraged about, somebody new to blame for something.
The Daily Mail (yes, yes, I know, but little reason to doubt them about this) reports that Ryan Lanza learned of all this because he saw TV reports that he had just killed a bunch of people and then himself. His Facebook activity appears to have been to let people (presumably shocked, worried friends) know that it was not him.
And Mashka, yes, Ariella is quite right; Facebooking from your phone is a normal communication method in the US.
Seems like it comes down to each person being a bit more independent and questioning data before sharing it. As it stands now, people are like those newsmen in old movies who rush to the phone booth to get a "scoop" by posting before their Friends can.
Social media is at its best when each person shapes and molds and augments a story. And it is at its worst when people just repeat misinformation over and over...
Really with so many questioning the value of a college education, the skills of research and analysis that such a degree gives, seem more important in an age where we are all Information Participants.
That made me pause for a moment as well. The reaction seemed a bit...misplaced. Even if we can't get a motive out of the deceased perp maybe there was something askance that could be determine from the survivors in that family.
Yes, a lot of the story was confused at first, including the widely spread misinformation that his mother was a teacher at the school. The speed of digital reporting encourages these errors, but much greater care should be taken before posting names of suspects for crimes like this.
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