How was CNN able to incorporate Palin's then-unreleased talking points into their "BREAKING NEWS"?

[BuyingThyme]

Media Watchers,

I think it's time to ask CNN how it is that their "breaking" news coverage on Friday night preemptively incorporated Sarah Palin's response to the Alaska legislative panel's report on the Governor's abuse-of-power trooper scandal .

All of the "breaking" CNN reports, including their crawls and captions, including their pundit exchanges, including their subsequent conversations on Larry King and Anderson Cooper, indicated that Palin "ABUSED POWER," but "DID NOT VIOLATE THE LAW."

However, when you look at the report, there is absolutely nothing to indicate that Palin did not violate the law.

In other words, somebody at CNN preemptively wrote lies into CNN's "breaking news" and CNN's subsequent "coverage."

I don't' see how something like this can happen unless somebody from the McCain-Palin camp is writing the McCain-Palin "news" for CNN.

Thank you,
BT

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/11/palin.investigation/index.html

[Lerkfish]

1. carrying the water

if you're accustomed to carrying the water for one party, you don't necessarily have to have direct communications to arrive independently at the only straw in the maelstrom of the report.

[EC]

2. She released her "report" the night before to preempt the official one

and they just love to separate employment laws and ethic laws...she was guilty of breaking ethic laws but not employment laws....the ethics is more serious

[EFerrari]

3. I bet Media Matters would love to see this.

Good catch, BT!

[BuyingThyme]

4. That's where the letter actually went.

:hi:

[Essene]

5. the headline was incorrect, but the article said she did violate law