Thursday, June 28, 2012
Courts CNN, Fox News, AJC slip up while reporting Supremes' federal healthcare ruling
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning upheld most of the controversial federal health care law pushed by President Barack Obama.
But we're seeing almost as much attention being paid to how CNN, in rushing to report the complex news, incorrectly said that the court had struck down the law's individual mandate (PDF). (The network later issued a correction.) Fox News also slipped up.
Confusion reigns ...We are double checking...
- AJC(@ajc) June 28, 2012
Whoops! We got bad info ... individual mandate constitutional and almost all of Obama health law is upheld, says @jamiedupree
- AJC(@ajc) June 28, 2012
The Associated Press got it right. The Guardian is providing some of the best minute-by-minute coverage.
Breaking news - especially when it involves complex Supreme Court rulings over contentious issues that have divided the nation - is difficult. And mistakes happen. We make them! But this ruling really deserved more careful analysis.
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