Is it annoying when news articles leave some major unanswered questions?

Maybe it was a fear of water…...
Or he tried to drown his own children. Hopefully a thorough investigation will get to the bottom of it.

Oh, I don’t think he tried to drown them. But…I can’t imagine a fear of anything stopping me from getting to my kids.

It is annoying, but the articles are frequently published before all the facts are in to get the news out there. Sometimes they are updated as new information is discovered, sometimes further articles are written if the story is big enough. I’d like to know more, too; but reporters are not omniscient.

After reading the article it sounds like trying to save them himself would have resulted in three dead kids.

The video seems to imply that the driver was helping.

I didn’t look at the video.

I didn’t either, at first.

What @SavoirFaire said. Also, journalists only have a very small amount of space to get the main points in. The journalist would have determined the key points they thought were important for that story. There may well be a follow-up with more information though.

The super-fast news cycle also influences this too. The constant demand for more and more news stories. They all need a slightly different focus.

It annoys me the most when I read a news article about someone attacked by a dog. They _ never_ say what caused the attack and instead make it look like the dog was completely evil. The reason I am so annoyed by this is because I knew of a dog (Labrador) that attacked a small child when the mother left them unsupervised for (what she claimed was) just a second. The news article made the attack out to be unprovoked and the dog was put to sleep. In actual fact the child had pushed a crayon so far up the dogs nose that it had pierced the skin inside the nose which would have caused the dog a lot of pain. This was only discovered after the dog had been put to sleep at the vets.