Santa Fe Shooting ‘Witness’ Conned Media With False Story

By Tom Knighton

Eyewitness testimony is often flawed, but it’s powerful. That power is why the media relies so heavily on it. A reporter can lay out everything that happened by speaking with a number of people and construct a detailed timeline, explain what happened when and how, but at the end of the day, viewers and readers would rather hear about it directly from someone who was there.

The thing is, it’s important that the person telling the story was actually there.

Most of the time, that’s not really an issue. There are often plenty of witnesses who are willing to talk to the media. However, it’s also clear that the media doesn’t do much vetting.

In the immediate aftermath of the May 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School, a man who said he witnessed the carnage seemed to turn up everywhere.

The man calling himself David Briscoe appeared in Time as a substitute teacher seemingly in the wrong place at the wrong time; CNN described his heroism as he ordered his students to “get down” and kept them protected until police came; The Wall Street Journal relayed the blood-curdling screams he heard from students in the hallway.

In April, nearly a year …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms