You should have seen their Twitter feed. This was about an hour ago: CNN Breaking News@cnnbrk President Obama to speak soon after Supreme Court health care ruling. http://on.cnn.com/LvVRcK Followed 11 minutes later by: CNN Breaking News@cnnbrk Correction: CNN does not have details on when President Obama will make health care comments. When you read the second one first without have read the first one, it's quite humorous. Some funny replies to that one.
I got the breaking news alert from AP and then looked at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Each of them had a different account of what happened. I was very confused, but it was later clarified. Today is going to be such an interesting day.
Almost as bad as that politician who accidentally released a slew of YouTube videos with varying responses based on the Supreme Court Decision... several days before it was to be rendered. No, actually, this is worse because it's CNN, not some politician's YouTube account likely managed by an intern.
CNN is dying a slow and painful death. At least with Fox and MSNBC, I know where they stand and what they're going to say. With CNN, they are so blatantly stupid at times, they've become unwatchable.
They've tried so hard to keep in the middle of the road that they don't realize how much they've lost control of the wheel. You have FOX and MSNBC to either shoulder of the road, sadly shaking their heads: "Will you just look at those poor b******s."
The problem is that their treatment of the news is not only not-slanted, just bad and cursory. The true "middle of the road" is McNeill-Lehrer or Daily Show or something. They're just plain bad.
And it's very sad. I think the decline began when Ted Turner sold his cable empire. When he wasn't busy fondling Jane's balloons, he made sure CNN had a strong news team. Post-Turner, I don't think CNN knows what they are.
yea...$crew...cnn...as i was telling my dad it was struck down...he was watching tv.. and matt lauer was saying it was upheld...i was like wtf...ftw...
CNN is just horrible lame and boring...always trying to be the middle, fair and balanced..but their pundits are more than that
Dewey Defeats Truman! I actually find the story on the story pretty interesting. I've read that both CNN and Fox News initially got the story wrong. My wife tells me NPR initially reported the wrong thing too. I imagine it's a hard thing to do because everyone wants to be so fast, and fact-checking obviously suffers. And, I wonder if it has something to do with scotusblog.com. They did a story on NPR a couple of days ago about how they'd be liveblogging the decision and that they'd actually be able to report first because they'd have someone run out and report while everyone else was still listening to the decision in the courtroom. I wonder if their runner called it wrong and the major outlets repeated without waiting to hear from the other reporters.
And Fox: And Drudge: It's pathetic that major news organizations can screw things up this badly. They're already pretty much irrelevant as a source of news, but times like these just prove the point.
ScotusBlog had it right, and the news outlets that used Scotusblog ended up getting it correct in the first instance . . .
But I will say that they have a bit of leeway here. It's a big decision with a pretty long opinion. They were probably reporting as they read and saw that they struck down the individual mandate on Commerce grounds and said it GOT STRUCK DOWN. Then they kept reading and saw that it was being implemented as a tax, and said WE ****ED UP! Well, except Fox and Drudge, because they never admit when they screw up.
Amusing that Fox Corp is splitting the company into two - a news division and an entertainment division - and FoxNews is being put into the entertainment side.
