Comments on: Serving up the Supreme Court dough before it’s baked

By: sylvan

sylvan — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:14:53 +0000

So why don’t journalists, which in my mind do not include any of the entertainers at Fox, set professional standards for the profession, if they consider it a profession? All healthcare professions police themselves fairly effectively, as do other professions such as law, accounting, etc. Journalists complain continually about their decline, though repeated polls show an incredible unmet demand for quality news reporting. If journalists had standards, such as separating comment from news reporting and clearly labelling it as commentary; defining appropriate means and methods of news gathering; establishing professional credentialing of journalists, etc., then maybe we would not be in danger of losing a free and undoctored press. So journalists, do us all a favor, and stop whining to us and clean up what was once a profession.

By: RobinInSanDiego

RobinInSanDiego — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:13:58 +0000

“Even President Barack Obama stockpiled multiple speeches to cover three possible outcomes, he’s just lucky that he didn’t give the wrong one.”

I doubt that was just luck.

By: ClaudeM

ClaudeM — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:11:15 +0000

These two goofs really speak to the professionalism of both FOX and CNN. Both have failed their audiences but in different ways; FOX has a global history of illicitly ferreting out news before its safe to print or broadcast; their speakers are not worth watching and I no longer do so. CNN is simply a failing source due to lack of ability to compete. My guess is that they will soon be subsumed by guess who: FOX. My advice to journalists of all stripes: Get the facts clearly understood before opening your mug!

By: ClaudeM

ClaudeM — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:11:11 +0000

By: posthu

posthu — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:06:06 +0000

“blank slates make awful reporters??”

blank slates make HONEST reporters. if that’s ‘awful’ maybe i’m getting my news from the wrong website.

By: Farkel44

Farkel44 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:47:00 +0000

Of course the court had no idea when the ruling was written how it may be read? They did not know that talking head Cable channels would be racing to be the first to declare heads or tails….. and they did not play the game hoping for the outcome they received? Yeah…the court was political a few minutes before the decision… but after that they were aces.

By: SanPa

SanPa — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:48:40 +0000

FOX creates news. The Supreme Court ruling re. Affordable Care Act happened to be a case when they created news with the wrong headline.

By: MIKEROL

MIKEROL — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:38:37 +0000

JacK You fail to mention the ideological investment that Fox Newshad in the law being struck down entirely. As to not having time – they had the same amount of time to dwell on the law and its aspects as the Justices had. A year. x m.r

By: borisjimbo

borisjimbo — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:03:32 +0000

No matter how many times Fox gets it wrong, there will always be a coterie of True Believers who still lap it up.

By: screenamefornow

screenamefornow — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:57:52 +0000

I’d rather watch Reuters. CBS tv news also good.