CNBC: Reporting, It's A Bad Thing
In case you aren't watching TV, there's a Martha Stewart verdict comedy of errors downtown. Our TV-enabled friends write in:
Amazing. Li'l Hard Hittin' Mike Huckman is out in front of the courtroom (sans fedora) with these two charts listing all the charges. On one side is a column of boxes saying "not guilty" and on the other is a column of boxes saying "guilty." So on live TV, he's checking off the boxes, getting it wrong, crossing them out, until like — all of the boxes are totally full. No one has any fucking clue if she's guilty or not. And the AP and wires are reporting his mistakes, verbatim. They keep cutting back to him, he drops his pen and looks like he just wants to drop dead.
Fortunately, they fare better in print.
Martha Stewart guilty on all counts [CNBC]
