That's Not Journalism

When reports started coming in about another mass shooting, News Nation Reporter Alex Caprariello was posting tweets that included information that was not confirmed and info from scanner traffic.

First-year J-school students know that you don’t report on scanner traffic. You get on the phone, call the dispatch or the P-I-O and confirm before you report.

If you can’t confirm it, don’t report it.

I also saw a news outlet report that there was “possibly a second shooter.”

I feel like I hear this every time there is a mass shooting and there is never a “second shooter.”