It also seems to me that we rarely hear much of what is eventually established about these things after proper investigation, because by the time anything is really known, the event is no longer a 'story'. Obviously this case is something of an exception, because the issue is so major, but even so I'll bet that that column-inches and broadcast-minutes devoted to erroneous, early versions of the Stockwell shooting story will far outrank those devoted to actual established facts by the time it's all faded from the public consciousness.