The screenshot that will live in infamy: CNN gets Supreme Court healthcare ruling wrong. (Yfrog screenshot)
… and the correction.
CNN is getting all the schadenfreude, but Fox News got it just as wrong.
The editor of Breitbart news went from elated to dejected in a series of tweets after initially thinking the mandate was struck down.
The Huffington post was full of snark after CNN corrected themselves, but guess what: they initially reported it wrong, too.
The first of many tweets at the #CNNheadlines hashtag Thursday.
This photoshopped send-up of the “Dewey Beats Truman” headline fail from the 1948 election has been circulating online.
Twitter has been having a lot of fun with CNN (and to a lesser extent, Fox News) for their premature, and very decidedly wrong, call on the Supreme Court’s health care ruling. The Court voted to uphold the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, as a tax, though not as a “penalty,” and that difference caused some confusion on air, and on Twitter. (The Huffington Post has been leading the snark, even though they got it wrong initially, too. Just sayin…)
The online laughter at CNN’s expense got so loud, apparently, an editor at the Associated Press reportedly ordered staff to stop mocking fellow journos who got it wrong. And Republican members of Congress who Twitter-boasted about the overturning of the individual mandate prematurely — we’re just speculating that they they got the wrong information from Fox News — later deleted their tweets (thank goodness for screengrabs…)
Here’s a sample of the best tweets from the #CNNHeadlines tag, and beyond…
