Posted on June 28, 2012 by Michael
As always, we got rousing coverage from the cable news networks:
The Supreme Court upheld the individual insurance mandate of President Obama’s “Affordable Health Care Act” in a 5-4 decision on Thursday, sending cable news and Twitter into a frenzy.
Moments after the 193-page ruling was released by the court, several media outlets–including CNN and Fox News–erroneously reported on-air that the mandate had been struck down.
“BREAKING NEWS: INDIVIDUAL MANDATE STRUCK DOWN,” CNN’s on-screen scroll blared. “Supreme Court finds measure unconstitutional.”..
CNN, though, was not alone in its rush to report the news.
“Fox News was so eager to see the healthcare mandate fail they forgot to read past the 1st page of the ruling,” Jason Keath wrote, pointing to a screengrab of the network’s breaking news stumble.
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Posted on April 22, 2012 by Michael
FOX is having a 25th year anniversary show to celebrate its existence. I think I can summarize without watching: Cops, canceled show, The Simpsons, canceled show, Married With Children, canceled show, canceled show, canceled show, That 70’s Show, canceled show, canceled show, Family Guy, canceled show, canceled show, 25th anniversary show.
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Posted on June 29, 2010 by Michael
One characteristic of the show Cops is the use of footage showing dumb as dirt, inbred hicks contending with properly acting, professional officers. That probably reflects a good deal of what most police do, but it isn’t the whole story. Cops are people. They aren’t perfect.
That’s why I’m glad I was linked on Unknown News for my post about not talking to the police.
The whole page is just link after link of the negative stories about police – the ones you won’t hear on Cops. I like this. It isn’t that I’m glad someone is finally shitting on the police; that isn’t what makes this appealing (and shitting on the police isn’t remotely original). It’s that it recognizes this conscious campaign by channels like FOX and SpikeTV to portray the police as always getting the bad guy, always playing by the book. They’re human. I like to see when they get treated as such.
Filed under: Politics and Social | Tagged: Don't talk to the cops, FOX, James Duane, SpikeTV, Unknown News | 3 Comments »
For the Sake of Science 