What is Pre-reporting?
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also Prereporting
The ability to report an event before it has occurred via live worldwide broadcast or through newsprint. Prereporting also involves contradictory evidence contained within the story that is being reported.
BBC on 9-11-01 engaged in pre-reporting with a newscast that World Trade Center 7 (a.k.a. the Salomon builing) had fallen while the building was still standing, and visible over the newscaster's shoulder.
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