Dispatches from the CNN Style Guide

Ed Driscoll » Dispatches from the CNN Style Guide:
"Having been corrected, what Lemon should have said was, “you’re right, I meant ‘semi-automatic.’” 
But he didn’t. 
Instead, he said:
“For me, that’s an automatic weapon.”
What?

It does not especially matter that Don Lemon doesn’t know the difference between ”automatic” and “semi-automatic” rifles.
Lots of people don’t.
But it really does matter that, having been told he was wrong on national television, Lemon contended that his prior ignorance — and not objective physical and legal reality — should prevail.
Legally and functionally, the item that the panel is discussing was a semi-automatic weapon.
There is no “dispute” over this.
This is not an ongoing “debate.” It’s not a matter of “opinion.”
It’s not an issue on which we can “agree to disagree.”
It’s not an “altercation” that can give way to “compromise.”
It’s a fact.
An undisputed fact.
And yet, for some reason, Lemon seemed to believe that he could talk his way out of his mistake.
“Let’s call this LemonSplaining,” John Nolte quips at Big Journalism.
And CNN wonders why it long ago lost the trust of a nation."