Fox News got out way ahead of the Idaho missing kids story this morning. FNC was the only network to report that both the missing girl, Shasta Groene, and her brother Dylan had been found alive, while all the other networks went with the wire account, which said that only the girl had been found, while the fate of her brother was unkown. Fox just retracted their online story and pulled back. The network was apparently relying on the word of a family member, who said Shasta Groene had told police that her brother was "at the house, alive." Apparently that's not so, at least as of now. Fox's backtrack:
The 8-year-old girl and her brother Dylan, 9, were missing from the murder scene and an Amber Alert was issued for them May 17, the morning after the killings.
Cheryl Morgan, the siblings' grandmother, told FOX News that Dylan had also been found alive at a house in the area after Shasta told authorities the location.
But at a press conference held at noon EDT, Kootenai County Sheriff's Department Capt. Ben Wolfinger disavowed that and said Dylan Groene had not been found.
That's got to suck to have to take that back on-air. |
