Getting it wrong, part three

The big story on the Aurora Massacre yesterday was the notebook sent by the killer to a C.U. Medical School psychiatrist. It arrived at C.U. Monday, and prompted the evacuation of the campus for three hours. No one in law enforcement would discuss the contents with The Denver Post, but Fox News, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, and CNN all reported that law enforcement sources said that the contents included drawings about a massacre. As part of his graduate studies at the Anschutz Medical Center campus, Holmes was enrolled in a course taught by a psychiatrist entitled, "Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders."

Fox News was the first to report the story, and they got one important detail wrong, according to C.U. authorities.. They said the package arrived on July 12 and sat on a loading dock until Monday.

Update: Why would law enforcement officials talk to national news outlets, but not to the Denver Post? Post columnist Joanne Ostrow points out that one father of an eyewitness to the shootings told a Post reporter that they could not talk to the Post because they had signed an "exclusive contract" with "Entertainment Tonight." Ostrow alleges that "television producers quickly locked up eye witnesses, legal experts, and others."

Update 2:: Or is it because The Denver Post has already lost credibility with law enforcement? Is it checkbook journalism, or sour grapes?

Update 3: Fox News is sticking to its story, that the package had sat in the "mailroom," not a loading dock, since July 12. The defense has filed a motion regarding the contents of the package being protected by Dr./patient relationship; so now the defense is asserting that Holmes was being treated by the psychiatrist to whom he sent the package.