Why People Distrust The Press

Here is a prime example of why people distrust the press. At 12:15 Mountain Time, I pulled the following story off of both Fox News AND the Cleveland Plain Dealer websites.

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, has died, FOX News confirms.

Tubbs Jones, 58, was earlier sent to the hospital Tuesday evening after suffering an aneurysm while driving her car.

Tubbs Jones' car veered off the side of the road Tuesday night. Police found her unconscious behind the wheel.

According to a police report, an officer was driving behind Tubbs Jones' car at about 9 p.m.ET and observed her weaving.

After a couple of turns, the officer turned on his lights to stop the congresswoman. When she pulled to the side, her car then started to roll across the lanes of oncoming traffic. The officer then pulled his cruiser in front of her car to block it from oncoming traffic, the report said.

When the officer walked up to her sedan, he noticed she was in "medical distress" and called for an ambulance.

Only one problem with that....as both sites (and numerous others) are reporting Rep. Tubbs Jones is not dead but in critical condition.

This is what happens when you rush to be the FIRST to report anything. You run the very real risk of ending up with egg on your face.

My prayers go out to Rep. Tubbs Jones and her family.

UPDATE AND BUMP: The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that the family is confirming that Rep. Tubbs-Jones died t 6:12pm (EST) as the result of a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm in an inaccessible part of her brain. Our prayers and sympathies go out to her family as they mourn her loss.