The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare and its individual insurance mandate today, although Fox News and CNN apparently expected a different outcome. They were so surprised, they reported it was struck down! Many in the media expected the Supreme Court to throw out the 2010 Affordable Care Act, but no one officially knew until the ruling at 10:15 Thursday. Looks like CNN and Fox News jumped the gun. Fail. The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling established that the law, which mandates citizens have health insurance, is constitutional, since not doing so results in a tax. Nonetheless, Fox’s ticker initially reported that individual mandate had been declared “unconstitutional,” while CNN said the mandate had been “struck down.” Both networks ultimately corrected their reports, but not before their utter idiocy was disseminated throughout the Twitterverse. Really, guys, awesome work. It’s unclear if they were merely confused by the court’s extensive 193-page ruling or if they had that text ready to go ahead of time and forgot to change it. In any case, as HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall joked, this would make for a great episode of The Newsroom … in two years, with the full benefit of hindsight.

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Media Fail: CNN, Fox News Erroneously Report Health Care Law Struck Down