AT LEAST 51 PEOPLE KILLED BY MASSIVE TORNADO THAT CHURNED THROUGH OKLAHOMA **

HOMES AND BUILDINGS IN MOORE, OK, WERE ESPECIALLY AFFECTED, AND VEHICLES **

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FROM **

MOORE, ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY, WAS ONE OF THE TOWNS HIT BY A MAY **

VOLUNTEERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS COMBING THROUGH DEBRIS IN MOORE, OK, **

NEIGHBORHOODS FLATTENED AND HOMES BLOWN APART IN THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB **

SHARDS OF WOOD, CARS AND INSULATION STREWN ACROSS THE AREA **

FEMA CLOSELY MONITORING STORMS AND THEIR DAMAGE IN MOORE, OK, AND **

HOMELAND SECURITY SECY JANET NAPOLITANO COORDINATING WITH OK GOV MARY **

OBAMA ADMIN URGES ALL THOSE IN AFFECTED AREAS TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF **

THE MASSIVE TORNADO THAT HAS STRUCK THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB OF MOORE HAS **

STORM WAS LIKELY AT LEAST OF EF4 STRENGTH, THE SECOND HIGHEST RATING **

SEVERAL CHILDREN PULLED OUT OF RUBBLE ALIVE AT PLAZA TOWERS ELEMENTARY **

RESCUE WORKERS LIFTED CHILDREN FROM THE RUBBLE BEFORE PASSING THEM DOWN A **

BUILDINGS LEVELED, FIRES SPARKED BY THE TORNADO, WHICH RAVAGED THE OKLAHOMA **

MOORE MEDICAL CENTER, THE ONLY HOSPITAL IN MOORE, ALSO SUFFERED EXTENSIVE **

THE CENTER EVACUATED 30 PATIENTS TO TWO OTHER HOSPITALS IN NORMAN, OK **

MORE THAN 20 STUDENTS ARE MISSING BELIEVED TO BE IN THE RUBBLE OF THE **

AUTHORITIES EXPECTING THE DEATH TOLL TO RISE AS EMERGENCY CREWS MOVE DEEPER **

FALLIN HAS DEPLOYED 80 NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS TO ASSIST WITH SEARCH-AND- **

COMMUNICATION SNARLED BY THE STORM, AS LANDLINES AND CELL PHONE TOWERS WERE **


 

Did the AP really need to put this (click to read) in an article about Barbara Walters falling?

Does the AP have to put the paragraph below in an article about Barbara Walters falling and going to the hospital? How about just the facts about the fall?  That is the news….

If you are going to write a bio for her (and I don’t think a story about her falling demands one), she has accomplished so much in the TV business…..been an incredible trail blazer for women….she had it a million times harder than women today…..she has been doing more for women in this TV business than any other woman and her accomplishments dwarf the paragraph below.

In exercising judgment what to include in the article about her fall (and our job includes exercising judgment), did the paragraph below have to go into it?  What do you think?

(Go to prior posting to read the entire article)

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