Comments on: The hilarity of CNN + Fox's bungled Health Care Act reporting, in a single 'shoop http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1463379 teapot Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1463379 These Americans are moving to Canada because they're appalled their country now has universal health care: https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/6/28/5Vaxj-8zv0emRWhNreijTA2.jpg This photo of Pelosi and Boehner reacting to the decision is gold: These Americans are moving to Canada because they’re appalled their country now has universal health care: https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/6/28/5Vaxj-8zv0emRWhNreijTA2.jpg

This photo of Pelosi and Boehner reacting to the decision is gold:

]]> By: Balance of Power http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1463342 Balance of Power Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1463342  That's funny. I thought you were Super Saiyan.  That’s funny. I thought you were Super Saiyan.

]]> By: millie fink http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462776 millie fink Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462776 Hmm. Amy Goodman said on Democracy Now! that they got it right <i>because</i> they'd been following scotusblog. Hmm. Amy Goodman said on Democracy Now! that they got it right because they’d been following scotusblog.

]]> By: millie fink http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462769 millie fink Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462769 Amidst my tears and anger, it's nice to see so clearly in such rare moments that the empire has no clothes. To see, in this case, that getting "news" out first is more important than getting it right. Amidst my tears and anger, it’s nice to see so clearly in such rare moments that the empire has no clothes. To see, in this case, that getting “news” out first is more important than getting it right.

]]> By: Rockmetteller http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462651 Rockmetteller Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462651 Where can I get one of those big iPads? Where can I get one of those big iPads?

]]> By: dethbird http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462574 dethbird Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462574 Guys respect the news. They're super respectable. I'm super cereal. Guys respect the news. They’re super respectable. I’m super cereal.

]]> By: uxpowered http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462553 uxpowered Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462553 I was watching the live blog from scotusblog and to be fair they botched it.  Reporters were more than likely updating websites as scotusblog was blogging: 10:20am  Amy Howe: The court reinforces that individuals can simply refuse to pay the tax and not comply with the mandate.Later: 10:24am Tom: Apologies - you can't refuse to pay the tax; typo. The only effect of not complying with the mandate is that you pay the tax. -If you refuse to pay the tax as it was read the mandate would have been null.  Drudge did the same thing but changed it on the fly as soon as the typo was corrected.  Reporters needed to step back for a moment and wait for the actual opinion and read through it.  Poor showing all around, but honest mistake IMO. http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/live-blog-of-the-health-care-decision-sponsored-by-bloomberg-law/ I was watching the live blog from scotusblog and to be fair they botched it.  Reporters were more than likely updating websites as scotusblog was blogging:

10:20am 
Amy Howe: The court reinforces that individuals can simply refuse to pay the tax and not comply with the mandate.Later:
10:24am
Tom: Apologies – you can’t refuse to pay the tax; typo. The only effect of not complying with the mandate is that you pay the tax.

-If you refuse to pay the tax as it was read the mandate would have been null.  Drudge did the same thing but changed it on the fly as soon as the typo was corrected.  Reporters needed to step back for a moment and wait for the actual opinion and read through it.  Poor showing all around, but honest mistake IMO.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/live-blog-of-the-health-care-decision-sponsored-by-bloomberg-law/

]]> By: Rosin Ffield http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462243 Rosin Ffield Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462243 *sigh, i hope he'd rather get rid of this indefinete detention bill, but, it's not your faulth Xeni love you anyway *sigh, i hope he’d rather get rid of this indefinete detention bill, but, it’s not your faulth Xeni love you anyway

]]> By: skyhawk1 http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462220 skyhawk1 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462220 Love it. Love it.

]]> By: Kimmo http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462208 Kimmo Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462208 I'm not sure I see the hilarity in megacorps churning out mass-produced lies... I’m not sure I see the hilarity in megacorps churning out mass-produced lies…

]]> By: mistercat http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462130 mistercat Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462130 I'd trust journalists if I could find any. I’d trust journalists if I could find any.

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462039 That_Anonymous_Coward Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462039 And somehow people still trust these "journalists". And somehow people still trust these “journalists”.

]]> By: GawainLavers http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comment-1462002 GawainLavers Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=168246#comment-1462002 Yfrog seems to have been Boinged. Yfrog seems to have been Boinged.

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