It is a psychologically fundamental need to want to know of a serious incident as soon as possible. For obvious reasons. Whether in antiquity there were wolves around the sheep pen or a pilot next into an aircraft the need remains the same. It is impossible to override this need for immediate information and best if we dont even try.
Much of it will be misinformed, some wrong, some right and some untruthful, but we (as in humans rather than specialist professions) do have a knack for sorting out relevant information. Psychologically that is what we need to do. This site provides such informed information.