Poor, Pitiful Palin

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Yes, they all do it. It happens all the time.

If you didn't know, I'm the Cellar's appointed cable news viewer, and although I don't do it any longer (preferring internet news sites), for several years I watched a good 10 hours/day, 7 days/week of all three cable news networks.

They all make these kinds of mistakes because it is very difficult to put together this amount of live news. It's tons of airtime to fill, and not enough good people to do it properly.

The silly thing is, it's much easier to spot real bias in the news, rather than these "gotcha" mistakes, but it's harder to build a narrative around that bias. If Think Progress examined which stories Fox covered, and how they covered them, it would be far more damning for serious thinkers... but far less damning for folks with low attention spans for it, who prefer that knee-jerking OMG FOUL BLOOD SPILLED REF KNOCKED OUT style. Folks like yourself!

Do they all misrepresent Rs as Ds when reporting on members of Congress involved in sex scandals? Unintentional mistakes by low level staffers?

They all display much, much more serious bias than merely getting the letter wrong. Getting the letter wrong is paper-thin fluff compared to what else goes on.