Lauren Ashburn/Howard Kurtz: How the Media Blew the Obamacare Ruling
CNN got it wrong. Fox News got it wrong. But the media as a whole clearly expected the Supreme Court to gut all or part of President Obama’s health care law. Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz on the debacle.
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June 29th, 2012I was just asked about CNN’s, Fox’s, and others’ screw-ups with the announcement of the Supreme Court health decision in the context of process journalism. I disagreed with the characterization. My response:
I could not disagree more strongly with your characterization of this as an error of process journalism. Hardly!
This was not a matter of reporting what you know when you know it. This was a matter of reporting your misunderstandings before you know enough to say that you know anything.
The entire decision was made and written. CNN, Fox, and others listened to a bit and went with it.
