Reporting on rumors (10 "facts" on immigration)
Submitted by yelvington on May 8, 2006 - 12:52pmI grew up in a world where editors could make the rules. "We don't report rumors" was one of them.
Those days are gone now, and reporting on rumors is one of the major shifts for professional journalism. No, we shouldn't repeat them -- at least not unchallenged. We have a responsibility to correct them. It's part of that "guides, not gatekeepers" thing.