JESUS! As if it couldn't be any WORSE,

[MADem]

1. Poor journalistic verification ruins everything. It's not shame, it is stupidity.

George Zimmerman supposedly called into the View yesterday, while they were on the air live.

Guess who BW didn't talk to?

You verify your source. You call your source, your source doesn't call you.

What idiot reporter would think, for a second, that a police chief with fifty wounded, fifteen dead and rising, weapons all over hell, and at least two complex scenes to process is going to be calling into a TV station shortly after he did a presser that provided the bulk of the material we know to this very moment?

I mean, really. The turd in the punchbowl is shitty "gotta get the story FIRST, fuck it if it ain't right" journalism.

Ask CNN about the Supreme Court coverage.

One idiot who plays childish Howard Stern pranks is one idiot who plays Howard Stern pranks. The fact that the TV "news personalities" put the call through is where the problem lies.