So Rains The central part of the US Texas state and the result of death on floods have increased in the dozen over the weekends, rumors began to spread about good news.
Two Daughter Would have been found alive in a tree near the Comfort of Texas.
Louis Amstoy, the leading editor of the Kare County, was skeptical, but the messages he received about miraculous rescue would not stop, he said. Volunteers seem to have supported this story by the Ground Report on social media. According to a multiple self -described witnesses, after sending a journalist for inquiry and hearing, the front conducted the story on July 6, which was later shared at a local and national level.
But the story was not true; As the local Sheriff says, “100% wrong”.
On Facebook, thousands of people saw this story, in which many expressed hope, gratitude and comfort. When Amestoy was forced to withdraw the story, those hopes were crushed. Like other disasters in the past, floods also attracted faster-prone information and worked as a warning to the vigilance of journalists at emotional charged news events.
After this story is deducted, deleted or updated their original post that shared many Facebook pages and accounts, deleted or unrestricted reports. Yet on Monday evening, some posts, including initial reports with 4,700 shares, remained unchanged.
Stories based on fake witnesses
Flash floods More than 100 people have died in Central Texasa from July 4, according to reports. Although the officials officials have refused to interfere with the rescue, they did not prevent the volunteers from showing them, Amestoy said.
When a journalist for the front, Jennifer Dean, the “volunteer fire brigade” and other community members told the story about the two girls as evidence of their efforts, Amestoy said.
Amestoy said, “You were very excited about that story. Many people were telling us that they saw the situation,” Amestoy said. “We had literally eyewitnesses.”
Dean comfortably spoke to about 3 to 5 peoples, all of them told the same versions of the story, Amestoy said. Dean couldn’t reach for the comment. Some took her to the med-up rescue site, Amestoy said.
Amstoy decided that they have enough sources to publish the story. However, the local authorities did not reach the comment for comment because he had guessed that he would not confirm the defense even though he was true. He said that without the help of the authorities officials, he has made accurate reports on the previous incidents related to the flood, thanks to the source of the information to stop the news conferences.
“We know that we will not confirm from the officers from the form,” Amestoy said. “So even though I was about to reach, I knew what the answer was, which is probably part of my problem.”
In the initial story, only five paragraphs quoted long, designated “witnesses” and “sources of land”. While reporting a busy report on flood-related news, Amstoy said he then intends to update the story with more detailed information such as sources. But a few hours later, the Keru County Sheriff Larry El Latha told him that the story was not true. Amestoy withdrew the article.
“As everyone wanted to be true, we wanted to be true, but this is wrong knowing that destroys all of us during natural disasters. Unfortunately, the story is not true and we are withdrawing it,” reads the editor -in -chief at the pinnacle of the story.
Kelly Macbrid, senior vice president of the pointer and president of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, said journalists have made it clear to their resources that they have planned to put and quote their names in their stories.
“These people realize that they will actually be responsible for the information they tell you. So if they try to increase their role in something, they can think about it twice,” Macbrid said. “If they are doing something exaggerated or they have seen something they have only heard about the second or third, they bring a little responsibility.”
It is important to have a Macbrid Postmart, and it is important to review the process of reporting their reports when it is a serious error. Amstoy, who describes his newsroom as a “one-man show” in which he is reporting a lot with the help of volunteers, said that Dean’s report believes because he has heard the same thing from his resources-the costs.
“If this is a big operation, you are investigating what happened, right?” Macbrid said. “And you are asking the reporter about their notes and the list of them each and everyone who speaks to them, and a third person can come back because it is so serious that you want to see where everything was broken.”
Volunteer’s Ground Report goes viral on Facebook
One of the earlier versions in the story is a cord chifflet, a volunteer, a volunteer. In his current unavailable Facebook Live video on Sunday, a copy of X was shared on X, saying, “We just got the news that two girls have found 27 feet on a tree. They are holding for a day. And they found them 6 miles.”
Later on that day, the chefallet has informed the Texas Public Safety Division (DPS) officials that the video posted a video that apologized for sharing the story. “I do not know their ability. I don’t know their name, but (they have) DPS shirts with their badges and gun and radio communication,” he said, “he heard it in a Kare County official.
They said, “If I am wrong or wrong, I want to express my heartfelt apology. I never want to irritate any story and I just want to share the fact,” he said. “When these people are getting intelligent all day and telling us what is going on in the field, when you get such information from the DPS officer from the DPS officer, I do not know what the more reliable source than what you say to them.”
We contacted Chifflates, Texas DPS and Karen County Government and Sheriff’s offices, but no one was ready to talk on the record.
Economic Times, one of India’s largest financial daily, and Kerraville Daily Times also recorded the story by citing a direct video of the chifflet. Later, in a letter explaining that the story is not true, John Wells, a publisher of the Kerala Daily Times, said in addition to the cheflet, said, “Many individuals claimed it and claimed to be their own knowledge and reliable source.” He wrote that the confidence and the directions of the situation were motivated to publish the story, he wrote.
Many high-profile people who post updates afterwards shared the story. These included meteorologists Colin Mysters, who had previously worked on the CBS and have 148,000 followers. He said, “Please let this come true.” Anchors of Doug Warner, KNWA-TV and Fox 24 also shared a chifflet account and labeled it as “reports”.
After the Kare County’s lead was withdrawn, my post was edited by my mystery and Warner.
Amsteroy said that even after retreat, it is inconceivable to how many people believe in how many people believe.
“We wanted this to be a good story. We wanted something positive to report and did not happen. And we are apologizing and we are blaming ourselves for this mistake.”
