[UPDATE]:
It wasn’t just their Twitter feed:
Moments after Bolduan spoke, the false story began to metastasize inside the network’s online operation.
The erroneous breaking news was made into a chyron at the bottom of the screen. CNN also sent out a breaking news alert.
And a half dozen top on-air reporters and producers within the esteemed news organization told BuzzFeed they are furious at what they see as yet another embarrassment to a network stuck in third place in the cable news race, and torn between an identity as the leader in hard news and the success of their opinionated, personality-driven rivals, Fox News and MSNBC.
“Fucking humiliating,” said one CNN veteran. “We had a chance to cover it right. And some people in here don’t get what a big deal getting it wrong is. Morons.”
CNN is going to have a hard time living this one down. Via ThresherK in comments:
LOL. Can’t wait to see what The Daily Show and Colbert do with this.
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Apparently nobody over at the “liberal” CNN could have anticipated today’s SCOTUS ruling:
And 12 minutes later:
Woopsies.
Southern Beale 
I assume that CNN read the part of Chief Justice Robert’s opinion that stated that the mandate was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause and rushed to the judgment that the mandate was struck down. Then, once someone got to the part about the mandate being constitutional as a tax, the correction was made.
You are probably right. Or, like Richard Mourdock, they had several responses already in the can and accidentally ran with the wrong one. LOL.
I wonder what headline CNN’s half-assed comprehension skillz would have provided back when the Reds and Red Sox played in the World Series.
In case you haven’t seen this yet…
PRICELESS!!!!
Fox News did the same thing. The TN GOP also had a sign on their FB wall saying”
ALERT
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down
“individual mandate” in ObamaCare.
You can view it on my blog. Someone told me that NPR almost did the same thing!
Yawn. Amusing but unimportant. To be sure Fox and CNN look silly but it is hardly out of character for news outlets to make mistakes in their efforts to get the scoop. Anyone who has seen either version of ‘The Front Page’ or ‘His Girl Friday’ can get a sense of what things were like in the 20s when reporters really knew how to compete.
Incorrectly reporting a SCOTUS decision and retracting in a few minutes has no real impact on anything. Now reporting that a state has gone to one candidate in a historically close presidential election before the polls close in part of the state where the other candidate is stronger could have a serious impact on that race. But our media would never do something like that…
And which cable news network was that? Thinking… thinking …
It’s all part of the same problem. News networks forgot their number one job: reporting the news. Not, amazingly, turning a profit. In J-school they used to teach the three most important rules of journalism are accuracy, accuracy and accuracy. Now the three most important rules are ratings, ratings, ratings.