Fox, CNN blow it in initial calls on Supreme Court healthcare ruling
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While The Associated Press and many other outlets got it right, CNN and Fox News, two major TV news sources, blew it moments after the justices released their decision.
“Please, immediately, stop taunting on social networks about CNN and others’ SCOTUS ruling mistake and the AP getting it right,” wrote AP Central U.S. Region Editor David Scott in a memo to his staff. “That’s not the impression we want to reflect as an organization. Let our reporting take the lead.”
At 7:09 a.m. PDT, CNN sent out a breaking news alert: “The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care – the legislation that requires all to have health insurance.”
TV screens tuned to CNN also saw an on-screen message that the individual mandate had been struck down. As Wolf Blitzer and John King discussed the mandate as the centerpiece of the president’s plan, and how it was the mechanism for payment, other outlets, and Twitter, where many also got it wrong initially, began contradicting them. (For a couple of minutes there, the Twittersphere was an incoherent mess, with so many conflicting tweets it was impossible to know exactly what happened.) Nine minutes after CNN’s first news alert, at 7:18 am PDT, the network sent out a retraction: “Correction: The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama’s signature health care law, including the individual mandate that requires all to have health insurance.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/28/news/la-pn-fox-cnn-blow-it-in-initial-calls-on-supreme-court-healthcare-ruling-20120628
Of course, they were right there along with FOX!
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- At CNN, when the news wasn't working they'd hit you with the seltzer.....
