Just two days after the tragedy at Virginia Tech a shooting near MU’s campus caused area media to falsley report the details of todays shooting. Both KOMU and the Missourian were posting information as it came in. Initial reports put the shooting at Reactor Field, which is on MU’s campus. However, we now know that the individual was pulled over on the street adjecent to Reactor Field and that the shooting took place well of campus. Stations like KSDK, the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, said “The Columbia Missourian newspaper is reporting that at least two people have been shot at the University of Missouri – Columbia”. That story quickly circulated around and possibly made it on the wires. The story circulated enough that TV stations as far as Florida were reporting Wednesday evening that “two MU students were shot on campus.”
While the Missourian and KSDK have since corrected the online version of their story, other stations and media outlets are still using the old version as of this evening.