CNN Host Hits Megyn Kelly's Ebola Hysteria: "Spencer did not have a 103 fever, he had a 100.3 fever"

[kpete]

CNN's Brian Stelter wagged his finger at Fox News on Sunday for what he described as premature condemnation of Ebola's first patient in New York City.

Rolling a clip from Thursday's edition of "The Kelly File," Stelter presented host Megyn Kelly ripping into Dr. Craig Spencer for not "self-quarantining" after he discovered he had a "103 fever."

"There was a lot of this—not just on Fox, there was a lot online too—people calling Dr. Spencer 'irresponsible,'" Stelter began. "But this is one of those excellent examples about why we should all avoid rushing to judgment."

"Spencer did not have a 103 fever, he had a 100.3 fever, " he said. "The decimal point is all that matters, here."


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[snooper2]

1. must be a slow news week for TPM

need better content...

a 30 second clip of blah blah isn't going to keep bringing in the clicks!

[Gothmog]

2. Kelly is a bad lawyer and a bad newscaster

[Skidmore]

3. How is this sort of irresponsible "reporting" not like

stampeding people in a theater by yelling "fire"? Creating panic on such a wide scale should be considered more than just an average error, especially given Fox's stated agenda of spreading lies.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. Innumeracy is almost as big a problem as illiteracy. I really don't know who Megyn

Kelly is and I'm pretty sure I don't want to know either. It scares me, though, that there are people out there capable of influencing the national discourse who, by the proof of their utterances, reveal they do not understand the concept of decimal fractions.

[Mass]

5. I heard the same thing this morning on NBC concerning the child.

The anchor was saying 103, while the scrowl at the bottom of the screen was saying 100.3.

The problem is that reporting are so busy not missing a beat that they cannot stop to think (and it is a general problem, both in print , on line and video media).