‘Kimye Engaged’: MSNBC Airs Incredible Chyron Fail

A premature headline on MSNBC Tuesday morning created one of the more disturbing cable news images in recent history. During a quick story about a woman who sleepwalked off a subway platform, MSNBC accidentally jumped the gun and put up the chyron “Kimye Engaged” ahead of the next story about the engagement of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

What viewers were left with was the image below, best experienced in GIF form, via @bubbaprog:

Watch the video below as it aired, for context, via MSNBC:

[h/t @IronMikeGallego]
[photo via screengrab]

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