...almost every reporter or anchor there kept saying information was "coming in quickly" or calling the story "fast moving," perhaps to offset the speculation and guesswork that masqueraded as news.... But the average American was hungry for information. And when there isn't real news, people make up their own. People wanted a story of who this guy was. What we did, by providing it, comforted them.
Pretty much sums up my feelings about the whole "sniper" story.