CNN’s John Avlon has never been my favorite news presenter at the network. But today he introduced a new segment called “Upon Further Review” which he said would be aimed at correcting stories the media got wrong initially. Avlon’s launch of the new segment was about the Duke volleyball story.

“Volleyball is rarely the source of serious controversy but it went straight to the front of the outrage Olympics two weeks ago when a Duke starter named Rachel Richardson made the explosive accusation that she and other black teammates were subjected to racist heckling while playing a game against Brigham Young University,” Avlon said. He then walked through how the story was initially reported, noting there were “some 65 separate articles” about the story and that the player’s family had appeared on CNN.

But to his credit, Avlon noted things changed when BYU’s investigation turned up zero evidence that this incident had happened. Avlon concludes there was a “rush to judgment” by the media.-
[hotair.com]