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05/15/2008
Oops: CNN Announces Same-Sex Marriage Ban is Upheld
Check out CNN's announcement of the same-sex marriage ruling which I've just clipped.
In their rush to get the ruling out, they called it the wrong way, discussing at length how the ruling went AGAINST same-sex marriage.
It took a good 15-20 minutes before they came on again and announced the opposite had happened.
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
How depressing!!!!
Posted 3:28 PM EST by Andy Towle in California, Gay Marriage, News | Permalink
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It is completely idiotic.
These people are supposed to have JDs working in their newsrooms. As every first year law student knows, the decision is never on the first page of a ruling. If you want to find out the result, you go directly to the majority opinion's signature page. Because it is the final court of discretionary review, the Supreme Court always renders a ruling as an ***order*** to the lower courts.
Usually, the relevant parts start with: "The judgment of the Court of Appeal is upheld / reversed / stayed."
And ends with "WE CONCUR" (if the names of the joining justices were not part of the preamble) or "IT IS SO ORDERED" (if the names of the joining justices were part of the preamble).
Not so hard to figure out, CNN.
Posted by: John | May 16, 2008 12:26:22 AM
It's an embarrasment for CNN, no matter what their biases might be. It was sloppy journalism. And I know they could have done it better because I posted an entry on my blog several minutes before that report cam on (as hundreds of others did) that got the decision right.
They have producers and editors there, but instead of actully flipping through the pdf that was available from the court, CNN let the anchor adlib the story from the cover page. Pathetic.
I had to flip through the file quickly to find the decision, but even I knew that the summary of a decision is likely to be at the end of the main part and not in the first page.
It was sloppy journalism. But, then again, CNN at least covered the story at all, with a decent segment on Cooper-360, and coverage throughout the day. MSNBC, by constrast, ignored it on their evening shows.
Posted by: robinev | May 16, 2008 1:01:21 AM
Some heads should roll at CNN, but I have my doubts. The talking dolls were basically speaking out of their asses that whole time, clearly having no idea of what they were saying, and yet the cameras kept rolling while us "laypeople" at home were somehow able to get the correct story. No excuse. But in today's news media being first is a bigger priority than being right.
I didn't watch MSNBC but MSNBC.com had a decent first-coverage video up shortly after the decision which I put up on my blog, so they didn't entirely ignore it.
Posted by: Ernie | May 16, 2008 5:02:47 AM
Did anyone catch Mike Gallonos on Headline News and his rant about same-sex marriage? He kept saying it wasn't ranting, and then he would rant on about overturning the will of the people. Isn't that what the Supreme Court is all about? Overturning something when it is unconstitutional, even when it has been voted on? And why do people have to have "rights" voted on?
Posted by: QueenZafrona | May 16, 2008 7:17:27 AM
Sloppy reporting, indeed! But really these news sources are very LCD (lowest common denominator) oriented anyway... Fox is the TV equivalent of the tabloid, and CNN is the equivalent of USA Today. As newspapers fold and we have to turn to other news sources, many are increasingly going to get their news only from sources they can trust ( online, etc) and are mostly free of idealogical agendas.
Posted by: Jay | May 16, 2008 10:26:08 AM