The New York Post's performance yesterday

Nah, Starman's definitely Scott Evil.

 

Then your standards stink. I don't care what news outlet said it or who owns the paper. There were never 12 people dead. There is no good reason to jump the gun on the number of dead people.

 

I'm not comfortable with that quote mistake.

 

This post has been edited from original. It should be noted.

 

Best I can tell, the Post made one more mistake than every other news org.

 

Nine bodies is one mistake?

 

You think they miscounted?

They went with bad info, same as all the news orgs who reported additional bombs.

 

There were never multiple unexploded bombs either.

 

Let's say you're in a math class. The question is the square root of 9. You say 12 because someone who you think knows math told you it's 12. Everyone else, including people smarter than you and people who have studied more than you, says 3. The teacher tells you the answer is 3. Everyone keeps telling you it's 3. The teacher keeps telling you it's 3. But someone whose math you trust says it's 12. Do you keep saying 12 over and over again?

With something like a death toll, restraint is more important than being first. You want to underestimate because if you say two people died and three people died, you still were right. Two people did die, along with a third. If you say four people died, you were wrong. If you say 12 people died, you were really wrong.

I have no problem with the initial mistake. But it's perverse to stick to the story more than a day after being told by every conceivable authority that you're wrong.

 

Wait, the Post is still reporting 12 people were killed?

 

From the article in the OP: "By Tuesday morning, the official toll had not risen. The Post backtracked slightly, writing, 'The official death toll was three, but a law-enforcement source told The Post it could be as high as 12.' "

 

So are they fabricating the source?