Is this all it takes to confirm a news story nowadays ? Just some anonymous claim on Twitter with nobody else backing it up ? It ' s amazing how quickly other news outlets are jumping on this story without doing due diligence to ensure its authenticity . This says a lot more worse things about these news outlets reporting this story than it does about CNN . Because if this is true , that just means one of CNN ' s distributors fowled up for just an evening . But if this is false , that means all of the news channels reporting this story are no longer verifying their news before subjecting it to the public spotlight . This could lead to far more damaging implications than some kids seeing two people having sex . And this isn ' t just a screw up that lasts half an hour , this is the current state of our own news feeds .