Man, deja vu and not in a good way.
AP quoted NPR and CNN (if I remember correctly) in reporting an Arizona congresswoman’s death after a mass shooting.
She did not.
No doubt, there will be mass dissection of how the mega-error happened, but what will be just as sadly interesting is how, 30 years after the Reagan assassination try and AP’s in-error report of James Brady’s death (I worked for UPI, which got it right), such a rare, major human breaking-news error is still possible — but that the world of the Internet spreads the error far and wide in milliseconds.
Drat. Humans will make mistakes, and communication errors will exist as long as there are humans.
But the much greater speed of today’s communication networks means even more care and caution must be used before unsubstantiated info is spread around the globe.
Whatever the specifics may be, this will be another excuse to blame the media as sloppy and reckless. When really, all we are is … human.
Mistakes are big or small. This one is very big, and very sad, and … never 100 percent preventable. But boy do we have to keep trying.
Leave it to Barney 
Ya know Barney, most readers were so relieved she didn’t die that the focus on the mistake pretty much evaporated.
The news changes everyday and it is a 24/7 effort to keep up with it. A little “grace” on the part of the readers should be expected in cases like this. Nobody expects perfection, just a correction.
KTVZ is better than most at keeping things “straight.”