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'Real cute': Brian Stelter trips all over himself and CNN in rush to defend media and their 'occasional terrible screw-ups'

CNN’s Brian Stelter taking note of the Washington Post changing its embarrassingly awful al-Baghdadi headline caught the eye of @CarpeDonktum

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Stelter took issue with that and set out to put on an impressive display of self-unawareness:

Wait, what?

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If you pay attention to CNN on a regular basis (and ratings suggest few do), “not over-reacting to online outrage cycles” is pretty much the last impression you’d get:

Our favorite part of Stelter’s media defense might have been the suggestion that the “mistakes” are rare and not caused by any kind of bias:

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Bingo! Because they’re not simply “honest mistakes,” nor are they “occasional”:

Maybe he’s too busy watching Fox News to pay attention to what happens on his own network.

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