LJ I reckon the only organisations that should be ashamed are the media.
I had quite a number of major sources all running last night, and in their race to be first to gain traffic the information being reported was basically all crap.
For interest we kept them running to compare what they were all saying, it was a circus
Both Gunman shot,
one gunman shot 20 injured,
negotiations ongoing
then gunman held up in printing factory,
hostages taken people dead
hostages to hostage, no injury
flurry of police near pallets ready for operation, turned out to be workers in nearby factory
hostage a woman,
hostage the owner,
hostages a worker,
hostages a man,
in the end I just gave up trying to follow the mis reporting and went to bed.
Only organisation that didn't seem to follow it constantly was CNBC, probably because they had totally botched it quoting their sources familiar with the matter in the USA who said the day before they had captured and killed the brothers, which was then retracted at great speed once the French government denied that anyone had been shot or captured.
It was merely an exercise to see which news service was the most accurate,
They should be ashamed of the hype they generated with incorrect facts, in the end they were just quoting each other.
