Multiple news outlets run false story about Texas church shooting 

This misleading headline in Global News “Gunman in Texas church shooting owned gun range, gave lessons: state prosecutor” has since been changed to “Firearms instructor took out gunman at Texas church service” and Global has replaced the Reuters story with an Associated Press story. 

It’s interesting how many times news stories get the facts wrong in particular directions. This time, the false narrative would have been handy for those opposed to firearms ownership, when the real story was that this guy not only was likely legally barred from owning a firearm, he never should have been out in public anyway. Now, I seriously doubt that this was done with intent… but instead what happened is that the reporter who wrote the false story, the editors who titled it, the publisher who ran it… they got their facts wrong initially and couldn’t be bothered to actually check, no doubt in small part because they *liked* the story.

This is hardly the first time this has happened.