CNN, Fox fumble the call, capping months of media misperception

The networks' mistaken calls on the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling came after much media speculation — often flat-out wrong — that sprang up following oral arguments before the high court.A momentous Supreme Court decision collided with a breathless, speed-obsessed media culture Thursday, resulting in botched cable TV coverage of the ruling on President Obama's healthcare law, a boast by a wire service of beating the competition by mere seconds and an understandable round of public mockery over the entire spectacle.

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