Friday, January 6, 2006

By Nathan Crabbe
The Gainesville Sun
Published: 1/06/06

Excerpt:

A series of miscommunications between rescue workers reportedly led to news spreading that all the miners had been found alive. Family members celebrated by ringing church bells and singing hymns, before the mining company issued the correct information nearly three hours later.

The company bore responsibility for not correcting the rumor sooner, said Bob Steele, the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values for The Poynter Institute, a journalism institute in St. Petersburg.

"When the church bells started ringing, when the people started singing, they weren't doing that because of news reports," he said.
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