Are we that impatient and greedy?

The reporting on the trapped coal miners is terrible, but not new. Think of the reporting during the Hurricane Katrina news cycle where we were told of rapes and murders in the Superdome, which never happened. I cannot fathom why patience and fact checking is not taking place these days. Even more, I cannot imagine the pain of those families whose fulfilled hope was proved to be false...chalked up to "misinformation".
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