Getting news fast and wrong  By Katy Culver, assistant professor
As today’s monumental Supreme Court decision on the
constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act unfolded, viewers
and readers relying on CNN and Fox News got the wrong
information.  They didn’t get a different interpretation or a
variation on a theme. They got the 100 percent opposite of the
truth. The ACA individual mandate was upheld. These viewers and
readers were told it was overturned.  This violates the central
idea, the very basis, of journalism ethics: Seek the truth and
report it. More importantly, it raises a critical question: If
journalism in a social and digital media age cannot get it
right, how can it claim the legitimacy and authority it needs to
survive?  ACA updates on twitter  To be clear and narrow, other
big players in news got the story right, including the
Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times and other news
networks. The offsetting alerts on Twitter are telling.  Also,
many people were awaiting the historic deci