I hope you had a fun, festive and relaxing Labor Day holiday, and it was a lot better than Katelyn Ogle's!
In case you missed it, Katelyn – daughter of Kevin, sister of Abigail, and the latest Ogle to enter the Oklahoma City news scene – became the subject of online ridicule and criticism from the right-wing social media echo chamber after a kind of flawed, kind of misleading story she reported for KFOR was aggregated into a very flawed, very misleading viral news story for Rolling Stone.
Here's a breakdown of what happened:
Last week, Katelyn filed this report for KFOR alleging that Patients overdosing on ivermectin are backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals and ambulances. Here's a tweet:
Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances https://t.co/aWuXExpKes
— KFOR (@kfor) September 2, 2021
Although the story was clickable, it lacked any real substance or data, and was built around statements made by one rural hospital doctor. In one snippet, he made very vague claims that even some gunshot victims "were having hard times getting to facilities" to be treated:

