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🗓️ 6 July 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:04.7	Brooke Gladstone is away this week.
0:06.8	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:08.5	Well, more than a week has passed since Fox News Channel and CNN broke the story of the year,
0:14.6	the Supreme Court's historic decision on Obamacare.
0:18.2	We have breaking news here on the Fox News channel.
0:21.4	The individual mandate has been ruled unconstitutional.
0:26.9	So it appears as if the Supreme Court justices have struck down the individual mandate.
0:32.0	Oops.
0:32.9	Within two minutes, more deliberate outlets were saying Obamacare was in fact upheld.
0:39.1	But here at OTM, we refuse to rush to judgment.
0:42.6	We check and double check.
0:44.9	And also we aired a rerun last week, so we had plenty of time to review the Supreme Court
0:50.5	Miss Reporting episode every which way.
0:52.7	And we are finally prepared to weigh in.
1:00.5	Fox and CNN, what a bunch of ninkum poops. By failing to read much past the first page of Chief
1:07.1	Justice John Roberts' 59-page decision before rushing onto the air,
1:11.5	both cable channels managed to get the story not just wrong, but 180 degrees wrong.
1:17.1	They called heads. It was tales.
1:19.8	But then what else was new?
1:21.8	Lately, the rush to be first has led to all sorts of embarrassing screw-ups.
1:27.1	At CNN...
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