It’s commonly recognized that eye-witnesses are notoriously unreliable. A quick scan of the Internet will show numerous examples where individuals have given widely divergent descriptions of what they think they saw. But what happens if it’s your job to report what you see? If you are a reporter how much checking do you have to do to make sure you accurately report what actually happened? Not what you think happened, but what actually did happen? More from MTSU professor Dr. Larry Burris: