twitter at ger on fnc. and i'm paul gigot. we hope to see you all here next week. >> on fox news watch. the highest court in the land. opponents and supporters rally outside. as you might expect the media coverage leans to the left none of these ideas should be controversial. >> jon: mr. obama ignites debate 100 days after the newtown tragedy and media ramp up coverage. npr on entitlements showing fraud and billions on waste and abuse, how did that sit with the media.

and actually watched cnn? and once a media darling, now, not the so much. >> what did you say? >> (bleep). >> jon: on the panel this week, judy miller, columnist cal thomas. jim pinkerton contributing editor. and daily beast columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. now. >> high drama at the supreme court. nine justices taking on a central issue of american life, gay marriage. today the court wrestled with profound questions, what is a family, what is the purpose of marriage? >> today the supreme court began two days of hearings on one of the most contentious issues of our time. for the first time the court is considering whether

same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. >> the u.s. supreme court today took on the right to marry one of the same sex. they're taking on two cases over two days and with anything the court touches, anything can happen. it's up to the ruling of the nine justices. public opinion has been changing fast on this subject. it's moved quickly in the past few years. >> today the supreme court took up the prop 8 case, a ban on same-sex marriage in california although a ruling is not expected for some time, one justice suggested the court could dismiss the case with no ruling at all. >> jon: well, it was one of the biggest stories this week in the media. the supreme court hearing arguments on two cases concerning same-sex marriage. outside the court, demonstrators on both sides of the issue. we just heard diane sawyer calling it one of the central issues of our time. is it? i mean, did it deserve the kind of coverage it got? you know, lead story coverage?

>> it's a big story. it might not be as big as the economy, for example, to most americans? nonetheless, media think it's a big story and we should take it from jack ferguson, media editor at the huffington post, and said supreme court might, may be divided on gay marriage, but the media isn't. should be aren't, we're plural. and-- >> but the coverage, judy, seemed pretty one-sided and seemed to be pretty much pro gay marriage? >> i think it was pretty one-sided because i think that reflects public opinion and especially young public opinion. and it's a divide in which people see it's an issue and others see it as a basic civil human rights. if you're in the the latter camp, then you really can't have enough coverage of it. >> jon: well, but there are a

lot of people who oppose gay marriage, witness them outside the supreme court. it doesn't seem that their views get a whole lot of coverage? >> well, i think that most the people in the media are, the way it breaks down in the polls, younger people send to be the ones more over welcomingly in support of gay marriage and media is populated by those on a younger scale. that's going to be the point of view. because there are so many people in the country who do oppose it, i think they should be given a fair hearing and there should be a real debate on it. the clips you showed are straight forward and i don't think there's anything wrong and cover the-- >> well, it's a chicken and egg. the media drive the coverage, i think, and for themselves. i haven't seen so much cheerleading for an issue since that done by the media for president obama.

natalie morales and sue sanna guthrey of nbc. >> jon: savannah. >> they were joined by people from cnn. new york times and wall street journal. i'm against all of this, female journalists, african-american journalists, hispanic journalists, why can't we just have journalists and why what are they doing going to advocacy dinner and reporting it. >> jon: and there were coverage on it, gay and lesbian couples kissing, and the headline "gay marriage already won." is that pushing an agenda? >> again, rush limbaugh said we lost, we lost the language on this, we lost the conservatives, that is. but bear in mind, the media have pushed this issue this far and might push it further.

melissa harris-perry a host at msnbc, and nation magazine, left wing publication saying it would be tragic -- as they seek to create a new kind of family and this issue will keep going and cal was making the point for years, and why, why logically, why stop gay marriage. >> i think i have a problem with the identification of someone who claims to be an objective journalist, who changes his or her avatar on facebook or twitter as to-- take a position. >> and some have been doing this. >> and they have been doing this and they say on the other hand, oh, well, there's no problem here, i can still be objective. well, no, you can't be. if you're an opinion journalist, you have the right to have an opinion. if you're trying to cover something straight, you shouldn't take one side publicly. >> jon: it will be interesting to see what the court decides

and how the media reacts to this decision. that's in the months to come. next on news watch, the gun debate goes on. . >> the gun control debate heats up. anti-gun advocates pushing their agenda with media help. but is the coverage ignoring real causes of gun violence? details next on news watch. protein is an important part of staying active and strong. ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars. [ major nutrition ] ensure! nutrition in charge! i you're suffering from constipation, miralax or metamucil may take days to work. for faster relief, try dulcolac laxative tablets. dulcolac provides gentle relief overnight unlike miralax and metamucil that can take up to 3 days.

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>> as i said when i visited newtown, just over three months ago, there is a step that we can take to save just one child, just one parent, just another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it. >> the president uses them as a back drop and drama for getting some kind of political will. but my question to the president is, call me if any of your reforms would have saved those kids at sandy hook. if anything he's proposing would have changed the outcome, i'm listen to him.

i haven't heard any proposal from him or harry reid that would have saved one life and i'm all for saving lives and i think it's a real and horrible tragedy, but i think it's a mistake to play on the-- these victims and the emotions of their tragedy when nothing he's proposing would change one iota of what happened. >> first there, president obama on thursday at the white house renewing his quest for more gun laws. kentucky senator rand paul then responding to mr. obama's, what he sees as his misplaced efforts. what about it, jim? does anybody in the media see it the way that rand paul sees it? >> maybe somewhere. (laughter) give him an hour, he'll try to come up with some. >> this is a case where the media in many cases are to the left of the obama administration. and there's a sense of disappointment among some and the president is scrambling to keep his base going. and meanwhile you see chris mathews, msnbc overtly

comparing n.r.a. through the movie casablanca to the nazis and pointed not the first time he's tried to point them out as nazis, and i'm waiting for someone to denounce mathews for doing this. >> kelly: i see you actually nodding in agreement? could that be? >> i think that president obama bears a lot of responsibility for this. i mean, he is the chesire cat who disappears when he you need him. and what you're hearing from left wing people and xh commenttators who feels strongly about gun issues, where has he been-- >> and out after million people, 151 blacks are killed. 15 whites. juan williams, who has been a guest on this program also wrote about the race issue, saying talking about race in

the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed bypassing a law. the family breakdown issues that leave too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. is he right? will the media note? >> he's right, but the media won't talk about that. rand paul was 100% correct in his analysis, you can be somebody who wants to end gun vials and support gun control like i do and know that the things proposed would not prevent that massacre from happening at that school. and so, he says the media is not doing their job, they're just reflexively saying anything that's gun control will solve the problem rather than analyzing and saying, let's look what kind of guns have been used in the killings? >> why are the media not looking at mental illness or some other contributing factors? >> because there's such a political component they want to play on this. if you're going to eliminate gun violence, you might as well as talk about eliminating

sin. it's not the instrument in the hand, it's what's in the heart. if somebody is determined to break a law to kill somebody, more laws are not going to deter them, especially with over 300 million guns and that's what the media never addresses. >> i think the issues are being traced now and this is the way the system works. a passionate minority can often deflect the will of the majority. and it's going to take a really focused campaign and a strategy to change that and it hasn't happened and who do we blame? i think the president deserves blame. >> jon: there are some on the left in the media advocating that the crime scene photos from sandy hook should be released, among them michael moore, the film maker and a guy named robert perry, wrote for ap and news week. had this to say, we must all look at these bullet-riddled six year olds, some of them ripped to pieces by multiple gunshots from an ar-15 rifle. for some of us such an

experience as distressing as it would be with lead us to take action. seeing the dismembered school children would give them a new way to value their rights. what do you think about this? >> i think that the people first of all, the parents of these children and see how they feel about this, i suspect they wouldn't want this. but look, the media's rolling with this and taking on new form and this information free-- does take itself to excess and photographing is probably an example of that. the des moines register put a graphic showing all the schools in the state of of iowa and whether or not they have security guards there. that doesn't seem like a good idea and register took it down and apologized, but we saw this with the journal news in westchester county, new york, put a computer graphic of the handgun ownership i think in westchester county.

and we're going to have to wrestle with, how do the media responsibly deal with the issues of violence and guns in a way that doesn't make things worse. >> jon: and what about that? publishing a list of unprotected schools? >> they said they were trying to inform parents whether or not the school their child was going to was protected. but you understand the instinct, but you would have thought they would have done the math and figured out they were alerting people where to jon: and next on news watch, the man in charge doesn't think that cnn is biased. >> npr reports on questionable government spending. the report causing backlash by the liberal press. and cnn claims to have an image problem. is it time to face the facts? all next on news watch.

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>> npr ran an investigation put together by shauna jackie wa walsh, spent the past six months looking into the government disability programs. the in the past three decades the number of americans on disability has skyrocketed, every month 14 million people now get a disability check from the federal government. it's the story not only of an aging work force, but also the hidden, increasingly expensive safety net. she also notes that the federal government spends more each year on cash payments for supposedly disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. cal, as you might imagine, the folks at media matters which is the liberal media watch dog group funded by george soros, they're having a problem with it, saying it's fodder for the right wing. i give kudos and congratulations to npr or

honestly covering a big problem. the problem with the left is, they don't want to see any error, any fraud, any abuse in government programs because for them, government is gone. but i want to give praise to doug mcelway on this network has done the subject about wasteful spending in government. we don't have this enough, but it's good that npr did it especially for their audience. >> not a legitimate organization and they're taking time off to attack npr and they're using their 10 million dollars annual budget just to destroy fox news, an interesting way to use your money in this world today. i'm not surprised that "media matters" is attacking them. this is what they do and must have talked about it and caused them to freak out. >> jon: are the other media outlets paying attention? >> not really. "media matters", i think is

trying to display fair and balanced by attacking another liberal leaning organization. but this is a first class report. this is well-written anecdotal, full of information i didn't know, without being hysterical, i, too, like cal commend npr. >> jon: and taxpayers who fund npr ought to be paying attention. >> when he you get statistics, 1/4 of a little county in alabama are on disability. there's a blister of claims activism. and you remember the old war veteran widows, marry a 100-year-old guy when they're 10, collecting. and reports are coming out that cnn typed a pilot with anderson cooper and new year's eve sidekick, if you remember

they he embarrassed themselv themselves. and the channels facing that news channel, what's the biggest misconception at cnn. >> that it's a liberal network, it's not. asked what to do to change that. make sure we have the right balances of voices, good conservatives, good liberals, experts in all areas, it's a serious news network. so, judy on the one hand he says we're not biased, but on the other hand he says we need more balance, how do you explain that? >> i'm going to leave that to phil kent's publicity people. i think what struck me about it was this breitbart went through a list of issues and compared msnbc's positions to cnn's position and found no difference in terms of their on-air presentation on benghazi, on gun control, on

piers morgan a category unto itself. i think it leans liberal. >> jon: he says they're a serious news network and get word that anded cooper and kathy griffin may be putting together a pilot. >> cnn is not as liberal as nbc, that's not much of a -- they're clearly liberal. tucker carlson did a great interview where he was asked about media bias. he says i worked at cnn for ten years, they're completely liberal they need to stop lying about it. there's nothing wrong with that, just own what you are, and be honest. >> i think that mr. kent has a possible new logo. a serious network, call it snn and we'll refer to it as sin. >> next on news watch, could the media be losing bieber fever. [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings

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you up they can tear you down. he has been pulled over for driving a hundred miles an hour on a california freeway claiming to be out run photographers. he was caught smoking marijuana but apologized on saturday night live and we saw him at his best earlier this month in london. [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> jon: well that is too many bleeps for a teen pop star that claims had he he has a strong christian beliefs. a neighbor that the teen idol was driving his way too expensive sports car way too fast. when the neighbor went to tell him,