My high school classmate, public health expert Philip Alcabes, has an interesting take on the situation.
http://www.philipalcabes.com/2012/06/disaster-for-health-care-reform-supreme-court-upholds-affordable-care-act/ On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > In order for a news gathering organization to use a term like "scoop" > correctly, somebody within that organization must be a journalist. > > This comes up everytime I see the word "exclusive" in relation to an > interview. Best example is a press junket for a movie, when 150 > reporters are each granted a five-minute interview with the star. > Because the reporter was the only one in the room asking questions > during his/her five minutes, he/she declares the interview and > exclusive despite the other 149 others who asked the same questions at > different times. > > You cannot be surprised when people who aren't properly trained at > what they do (or those who are properly trained but elect to ignore > the training) bungle the most basic terminology. Or prematurely say a > Supreme Court ruling reversed a law when it didn't. Or ignore actual > news to cover Tom and Katie's divorce. Or spend time on an anchorman's > sexual orientation. > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The scoop was that they confirmed that he had switched his vote. As >>> far as I had seen up until Sunday morning, everyone else had been >>> speculating about a change or presuming that he had based on the >>> evidence of parts of the opinions occasionally pointing to the >>> decision going the other way. >>> >>> In other words, it was a scoop in the same way that the Anderson >>> Cooper story this morning is a scoop--it's formally confirming the >>> obvious. >> >> >> I may have missed it in the video, but my memory is that the CBS >> confirmation was from anonymous sources who work somewhere in the court >> (could be a justice or a janitor). I read all weekend that "people in the >> court" were saying that Roberts had switched, that Kennedy was pissed, that >> Roberts was turned off by Scalia, etc. So I am not sure how this CBS story >> is really more of a confirmation that what we were getting all weekend >> online. >> >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
