"WE all" are not part of the media, who have a RESPONSIBILITY to verify FACTS from RELIABLE sources.
At the very least, a disclaimer that this is, as yet, an unsubstantiated report would have been in order.
The reaction and the amplification were all too human and completely understandable as is today's pallets-of-kleenes-overwroughtness. We all have a bit of the theater in us, more than a bit. And it comes out -- uncontrollably and unwisely -- at such traumatic events.
Fortunate, very fortunate, it is and we are that we have not the chance to learn from practise. For only by having such terrors come to life again and again in a community does the human tongue train to forbearance.
"WE all" are not part of the media, who have a RESPONSIBILITY to verify FACTS from RELIABLE sources.
At the very least, a disclaimer that this is, as yet, an unsubstantiated report would have been in order.