Laura Fink: Fox News Should’ve Walked Back Car Bomb Story ‘Just as Loudly as Initial Coverage’

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FINK: "I think you just described the telephone game that happens when media coverage is inaccurate. And so there’s a couple of important things here. One, you’ve got to have an editorial team vetting sources. You’ve got to make sure that the word that you’re hearing, who is the police source, is it someone that's official or unofficial? Is that source trustworthy? This process is critical before going to air because we know that the urgency and desire for information is almost proportional to the lack of vetting potentially. So this is where the editorial boards come in. And second, when mistakes are made, you have to walk it back. You have to walk it back with editors’ notes, you have to walk it back — not just the reporter saying something, but you also have to walk it back in public and just as a loudly as you had the initial coverage. And I don’t think that that was done in this instance, and I think that leads to terrible things like conspiracy theories and elected leaders, you know, being the mouthpiece of inaccurate information. So I would hope in the future that happens."