An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.
“Really?” Doud wrote. “Does it really sound believable that one kid out of every 24 has witnessed a shooting in the last year? I think not, unless it was on TV, in a movie, or in a video game. In that case it would probably be more like 100 percent.”

His instincts were right. The statistic was not.

Source How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns

I say momentary because I doubt we will see this happening again. And certainly they won’t back to check all the crap that has been fed through the years.

If anybody knows Fake News intimately is the Gun Culture.