This morning, a gunman opened fire in a Tucson market and shot a number of people, including his apparent main target, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was attending an event there. At the moment, news sources are scrambling to find out whatever they can find out. Several sources have said flat-out that Representative Giffords has died but at this moment, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are reporting that she's alive and able to speak as she's heading into surgery. So some of the news reports, including a number on those channels, have obviously been wrong. Remember when the media waited for real confirmation before they declared someone was dead?
I scanned a few blogs and saw folks, acting on little or no info, trying to spin this as the responsibility of their political opponents. You wish these people would observe something like a 24-hour moratorium before they tried to exploit a tragedy of this kind but I guess that's too much to ask.