Jon Stewart is always excoriating about the incentives on cable news, from the desire for spectacle to the worship of the graven idol of “balance”. But when a competition to be the first to report on Obamacare – beating Fox News by just eight seconds – led to CNN reporting the wrong news for a full seven minutes, they really were asking for it.
And if you’re wondering how CNN messed up so bad, the answer is here.
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