Thursday, January 5, 2006

By Katharine Q. Seelye
The New York Times
Published: 1/05/06

Excerpt:

Kelly McBride, the ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, which studies issues in journalism, concluded that while reporters had been quoting the families and state officials saying the miners were alive, no one seemed to have asked the basic question: How do you know?

"No one could say exactly who said they were alive," she said. "Our tendency in a crisis is to think that someone with a title is infallible. It's human instinct to want to rely on them. But it's journalistic instinct to question even further."
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