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Officials: Arrest Made in Ricin Letter Investigation

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CuriousLurker4/17/2013 7:35:26 pm PDT

QFT—last paragraph of the article:

The F.B.I. Criticizes the News Media After Several Mistaken Reports of an Arrest

Judy Muller, a former network news correspondent who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, wrote in an e-mail, “I fear we have permanently entered the Age of the Retraction. All the lessons of the past — from Richard Jewell to NPR’s announcement of the death of Gabby Giffords to CNN’s erroneous report on the Supreme Court Ruling on ObamaCare — fail to inform the present. The rush to be first has so thoroughly swallowed up the principal of being right and first that it seems a little egg on the face is now deemed worth the risk.”