A direct blow to the Democratic Party

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4. Mediaite: CNN Launches Internal Review After SCOTUS Ruling Mistake

by Alex Alvarez | 4:13 pm, June 29th, 2012

CNN has vowed to launch an internal review prompted by its initial misreporting of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law’s individual mandate, TPM reports today.

In a memo obtained by the Washington Post, CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist writes that “we are looking into exactly what happened” before noting “our coverage after 10:20am was very strong:”

Today we failed to adhere to our own standard, namely it’s better to be right than to be first. We take mistakes seriously, especially mistakes on such important stories. We are looking into exactly what happened and we will learn from it.

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(Feist’s full memo at link.)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-launches-internal-review-after-scotus-ruling-mistake/