http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1054-1703419,00.html
Mick Hume
"ONE SURE WAY to spread fear and panic is rumour-mongering. Yet in our new age of the �citizen reporter�, it sometimes seems that rumours can pass for news. Amid the early confusion yesterday, news organisations starved of facts immediately put out the call for accounts and pictures from witnesses. The result was various half-truths and speculation being treated as good coin. Amid all the excitement about on-the-spot citizen reporters with their phone cameras, let us try to remember that there is no substitute for hard facts and cool analysis."
