CNN calls shotgun... 5 minutes after AP.

CNN has still not learned the simplest (but one of the most important) lessons of the 24/7 news cycle--calling dibs is stupid and irrelevant.  One would think they'd have learned after they mis-reported the Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare back in June.  In this case they did not mis-report the story, but they called 'shotgun' several minutes too late.  Notice the time in the upper-right corner of the tweet.  This tweet followed (in my feed) these:

There were several others in my feed, but a couple of counter-examples should do.  The point is simply that measuring your value as a news outlet by 'getting there first' is stupid and pathetic.