Sometimes a story has to be killed. Sometimes it has to be rewritten. The deadline can't take precedence over the facts. But that is half the issue. The other half is a better-informed public, one that takes the time to educate itself from a variety of sources, so it, too, can know if something makes sense.
War is serious business.
We owe it to the people suffering through it not to believe everything we see or everything we read. Endnotes William A. Gralnick is southeastern regional director of the American Jewish Committee.