Scott Swanson
I suspect I’m not the only one who takes breaking news broadcasts with a grain of salt.
Here’s an eager-beaver, usually young, reporter on the TV screen as smoke billows in the background and emergency response workers scurry by, breathlessly telling us that 50 people are missing in the huge explosion at such-and-such.
Three hours later, we learn that everybody’s accounted for and most of the staff had actually gone home when the…