When "oops" just doesn't cut it.

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

We live in a bit of a different media era than 50 years ago. We have instant news everywhere, and this can make a difference in one of two ways for each incident, and it is unfortunate that we can never know which effect it is having.

The first possibility is that something has come to light that would not have ever come to light and this means that the event has been exposed because of the instant media.

The second possibility is that this instant information leads to incredible amounts of theorizing and pontificating when the evidence is not as of yet all known. This can also have positive and negative effects - the positive being that a real investigation will most likely take place, but it also allows for the instant politicization of the news itself, and allows for incredible theories to be thrown about that are not substantiated, and because of the average short attention span and the tendency to move on to the next instant news bit, when the evidence is known most people don't really care about it anymore.

It provides an atmosphere of unproven hypotheses being the prevailing factors in making a judgement on the event.

Hear, hear!
Plus, if you throw the highly competetive 24-hour news channels and blogs into the mix, you have the distinct possibility of many people receiving their news in the form of an editorial.
I'm not posting my opinion on the story here, because frankly, I have no idea what the truth is. I've heard the escalating allegations. I've heard the spin. I'm not sure I've heard the truth. From either side.