alt Hacker NewsI saw the first post about this on /r/flying and /r/aviation 5 hours ago and legacy media is only started reporting it in the last hour or so
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I have seen a lot of first posts on social media which have been wrong
Nope.
CNN, CNBC, NYPost, Guardian all had stories up quickly, or around an hour. There are others too.
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Down-votes happen but disappointing since I'm stating facts. Heres some backup:
The user haunter said media started reporting around ~4 AM EST (based on timestamps).
The accident happened at 11:40 PM EST. Story publish times across a sample of various legacy/mainstream media orgs:
CNN - 12:47 AM
NYPost - 12:47 AM
The Guardian - 12:50 AM
Associated Press (AP) - 1:31 AM
Fox News - 1:47 AM
Newsweek - 2:24 AM
Is this a dig on legacy media? Do we expect people to be up all hours of the day reporting the news?
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And so much of the legacy media info is wrong. It’s strange because a lot of the primary sources are public.
This is a good overview so far:
/r/xyz doesnt need to fact check. Sure those are excellent subs but just being watering holes and not legal entities they can move faster. There were some wrong facts on r/aviation although it got viral so people just ploughed in with whatever news outlet they read it on.