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it s just an atrocity that s impossible to explain. joining us to examine the coverage of the colorado shooting in minneapolis, political correspondent for the guardian. and here in washington, rame ramesh panuru from political review. bob cusack from political newspaper the hill. bob, why the great rush by abc too report what turned out to be flatly wrong information it the alleged shooter? that s a pretty bad mistake. obviously journalists in that situation, you re doing research, who is this guy you can t say that on television unless you confirm it. especially for such a common name. a bad mistake. i think generally the media did a good job, whether bill o reilly or they went to straight news coverage on this. to make that kind of mistake, quite poor. infuriated the tea party and rightly so. we saw piers morgan a moment ago in the early hours after this tragedy. he tweeted, america has got to do something about its gun laws. then breitbart.com, the ....
we ll examine the frenetic coverage of the movie theater shooting. conservative commentators join the call for mitt romney to reduce his tax returns. is there right in revolt against the republican candidate? plus, yahoo! taps google executive marisa maher as its new ceo and it s been downright adoring. google geek to yahoo! ceo, and she s going to be a first-time mommy. with so few female bosses in silicon valley, is the press putting her on a pedestal? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. perhaps the single worst thing that news organizations do after a crazed gunman opens fire on a crowd is rush to judgment about the affiliation or beliefs of the shooter as abc news did. there s a james holmes of aurora, colorado, page on the tea party site, as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year. we don t know if this is the same james holmes. but james holmes of aurora, colorado. it turned out to be someone with the same name. and ab ....