. >> jon: on fox news watch. >> he's got something in his hands, i don't know what his deal is. >> and need help. >> yes, what is your-- there's gunshots. >> a 17-year-old boy is shot dead in florida. the shooter, a watch captain who claims the boy was up to something. national reaction calls for the shooter to be arrested and accusations of racism. was this a story for the national media? >> this year, tens of thousands of uninsured americans with pre-existing conditions, parents of children who have a pre-existing condition will finally be able to purchase the coverage. >> two years and counting since mr. obama signed his health care mandate with cheers from the mainstream media. >> now, that mandate is headed to the supreme court to decide its constitutionality, will the same media abide by the

ruling or play politics with the decision? >> and if they're interested. >> i'm not looking for someone who is an etch-a-sketch candidate. >> a romney insider creates controversy when he compared his candidate's change in focus, to shaking an etch-a-sketch and starting overment how do you think that the media reacted to that. plus, he's been calling talented, been called controversial. now, he'll be called-- >> a new york jet. and how will the notorious new york press handle tim tebow? on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller, syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton contributing editor the american conservative magazine and bureau chief of talk radio news service, ellen radner. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now.

>>. >> stand up for justice, and stand up for what's right. >> and this is not about black and white thing, it's about a right and wrong thing. >> the mother of trayvon martin, an unarmed 17-year-old shoot on the way back from a convenience store, carrying a bag of skittles and an iced tea he. the man who shot him claimed self-defense. he was not arrested and then the 911 tapes were made public. >> those tapes gave way to more questions about what happened that night and why zimmerman wasn't arrested. the media gave more tanks to the story and so did the activists. >> you cannot defend yourself

against a pack of skittles and iced tea. don't talk to us like we're stupid. don't talk to us like we're-- we love our children like you love yours! >> the story has built incredibly in the month or so since it happened. no doubt, a tragic story does it deserve the attention of national media? >> well, the media have certain predilections always interested in the cute child that gets murdered, always interested in the blond co-ed that is murdered and interestedn the black victim of racism as another thing. about 300 murders a week in this country and they pick out certain ones and name them and then in this case, it was in the tradition of emmitt till or james byrd or yow self hawkins until the president of the united states jumped in in a personal way and michael sheerer of the new york times said he seemed eager to jump

in the debate and lead to a mistrial for the the defendant, but nonetheless, super politics nova to come. >> jon: right now the body language from judy next to you is saying all kind of disagreement. >> well, this is because jim and i discussed the story a long time ago, of course, this was a national story. this is a story that has resonance, not only because an unarmed black teenager is shot down on the street, it's a story because 20 states have gun laws just like florida. it's a story because the florida police appeared to have covered up this terrible, terrible event and the facts leading to it. of course, the national media got onto it after it became a sensation on social media. this is a story driven the social media. >> if she is he' right did the national media fail? >> it's interesting because

one of the journalism critiques that we all read talked about the fact that none of the journalist's articles talked about-- and the journalists didn't do their jobs in terms of the racial compensation of the community. were there other racially motivated crimes in that community because they're all talking about racism. and the history of this guy, zimmerman and whether he in fact, and all of his other calls he made 30-some over the last ten years to 911, on to the cops, were they actually, did they have a racial component. nobody really looked at that and i think that's interesting. >> and here is a quote you don't normally hear, cal. thanks god for the media because i'm not sure we ever would have gotten the truth out, that from the attorney who is representing trayvon's patients? >> this story has two components, there's the legal one the authorities are looking into it and media one. washington post headlines, this gives us a chance to go back to the '60s again and what the big media want to

replay over and over again. let me suggest something else, i live in washington d.c. and watch the local news every night and true in many big cities, too, most of the crime stories that local stations focus on involve african-american perpetrators, dead black children perpetrating adults with guns almost never about the successful, family oriented, honest, law abiding african-american people and i'm suggesting to you, jon, that this helps feed the racism in some minds, pan gives the gated communities and the alarms more credence. >> ellen, racism figured into this coverage here quickly. if zimmerman were black, would this story have gotten this attention. >> most likely, it would not have and the fact is that you wasn't. racism did play into it and racism does play into it. and in fact, there was one

group that said there were a the lot of these kind of stories that don't get play precisely because of that. >> i don't think we know right now, ellen, that racism played into it or not. i don't hear zimmerman being quoted anything to that effect. and we should be careful, zimmerman may well get acquitted and may not be indicted and already convicted in the main street media and throwing around the r-word, racism. >> she said they always get away with it on the tape he was told to stop stalking it kid and disregarded these instructions. it's hard to imagine a situation where race is not a factor here, jim. >> what about the crime rate in the area, does that matter? >> that's exactly what some of the journalism sites pointed out that they had, they had not taken a look at and it's interesting, and want to say the press has been terrible on zimmerman's family, we don't know the profiles of the guy or family lives. >> mother jones did a good piece on this, that has a lot

of the he will pts that haven't been covered. in fact, it has been covered. >> okay. >> it's got a lot of attention when the president spoke out about it. quickly, here is what he said. >> my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin, you know, if i had a son he'd look like trayvon and you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us, as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> jon: originally the president, white house said it was a matter for local authorities to set out. is it helpful for the president-- >> it's an election year, reminds me the case between the harvard professor and boston police officer and that was a local matter and the president injected himself and had them for a beer in the back yard of the white house and it's all about him and

publicity and about getting reelected. >> no, the president spoke from a personal standpoint. and it gives the poor guy a break, cal. if he wanted to politicize it, he would have talked about gun control. >> as i mentioned-- michael sheerer of the new york times, the president is usually reluctant, burned on the boston cop story, he wanted to get into this. so you have to ask whether this is political calculation and they took on rush limbaugh, and obama-- >> and that's story-- >> if i was mr. zimmerman's attorney i would be really happy with what happened today. >> there's more news watch up ahead next, the media getting set for a big battle at the supreme court. this year, tens of thousands of uninsured americans with preexisting conditions, the parents of children who have a pre-existing condition will finally be able to purchase the coverage they need.

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he >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack obama. [applause]. (bleep) >> two years have passed since president obama signed his health care reform bill into law. something the news media marked the date and when asked how mr. obama would make that, his press secretary said, i don't anticipate a presidential marking after anniversary only those who toil inside the beltway would focus on. if i may as a layman take issue with the knuckleheaded

reporting that suggests or buys the critique that we're somehow not proud of the accomplishment. what do you make of the secretary, a former journalist himself, what he has to say? >> i think it raises questions about credibility. what was interesting, the white house finally decided to have this unnamed and now named person, cecelia, answer questions about the president's health care bill on twitter. that's the way they're marking the anniversary. i think the president is nervous about the supreme court decision, he's got to be. i think it's going to go in his favor, but it's, i wouldn't take odds. >> jon: no celebrations for the two year. >> right, i side on the show before. nobody really pays attention to the white house press secretaries anymore, they spin all the time. of course, they thought it was a positive for them. they would have celebrated. the reality if the supreme court would rule against obama, and probably help give them victim status. they're afraid that the law is

going forward in terms of deficit public opinion polling and they see it as a liability in general. >> so, if the court rules against the president on obamacare, how will the media react? >> well, i think the media will have a field day and the media will of course, be bothering the candidate romney every other second and he will not be allowed to get away without answering how he feels about it and they will use it. >> and that decision will probably come out in june and i will have to say that the media has to be pretty good in its analysis of how this might happen. and looking at this, at the justice's records. and i was pretty impressed by it. >> the wall street journal ran the biggest editorial i've seen in that paper, and on the health care argument in front of the supreme court. >> right, and the washington examiner, four or five part series on this very subject. and there hadn't been a whole lot of analysis, however, of

the heritage foundation, and the cato institute and many other proposals for fixing the problem. but to my great surprise, "the washington post" blogger, jennifer reuben write this week, speaking of the paul ryan medicare reform plan, no matter how many times, liberals repeat that ryan's reform plan, it isn't true and the misrepresentation is so egregious that one can only conclude that it's the honest analysis of the plan. >> and here is what nancy pelosi had to say about the health care law, listen. >> we knew what we were doing when we passed this bill, it is iron clad constitutionally. what happens in the courts is another matter. but, we believe that we're in pretty good shape going into the court. >> who wants to explain what she means by that. >> gregg: she herself said we'll have to pass the vote, but let me make a point.

there's a legal argument and financial argument which is are well patched out here and medical argument, ignored except for a few people like me, writing for the manhattan institute medical progress. and the number by the f.d.a. is down by almost two-thirds and new medical devices down by 40%. in the middle of the discussion over health insurance, the reality once they go to the doctor, to talk about the lump or the pain is being ignored frankly by both parties. >> jon: there's more news watch ahead. if you see something that you feel is media bias, e-mail us at newswatch@foxnews.com. a new political shake-up. >> i think he hit a reset button for the fall campaign kind of like an etch an asketch, shake it up and start over again. >> and touting with claims of flip-flopping on key conservative issues, his campaign gets clobbered when compared to an etch-a-sketch

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>> i think he hit a reset button for the fall campaign. everything changes, almost like an etch-a-sketch, you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. >> that's romney advisor giving birth to the etch-a-sketch controversial this week, a gift for other g.o.p. candidates and for the media to go at romney again for flip-flopping on issues, accusing him of faking it when trying to appeal to true conservatives. now, he said that he was not talking about changing your point of view on issues, he was saying that you kind of reset the campaign. >> well, that's right. and, but clearly, everybody liked that etch-a-sketch thing

and they went off on it. and i just want it say that the baltimore sun quoted romney's person as saying that this was quintessentially american, this etch-a-sketch thing. and yes, it is, because it's done by ohio where i'm from, ohio art and it's now manufactured in china, since 2002. >> and in creative writing in junior high school, use vivid imagery, don't use cliche and ametaphors and this fellow made an analogy, etch-a-sketch. it's right up there with the dog on the roof or the $10,000 bet and the romney's campaign's misfortune, about the vivid things don't help them. >> this the aides are not-- >> this aide has been a great reputation with romney and been with him a long time and stuff happens.

and from "the washington post," the gaffe, it might be a one day story. did it already play to a narrative that we have about romney, which is that he doesn't really stand for anything, doesn't believe in anything and therefore, it reinforces that image, which is most unfortunate for romney. >> and a blood oath or issuing a press release on the kind of staff he will hire against the white house. >> john mccain has been down this path before and says that the media are overplaying this. that he was beaten up for weeks after making a comment about the economy. >> and look, the media bias here is pretty obvious and they didn't found away at obama for saying 57 states and didn't pound away at obama for the guns and-- and the media are all over this the. but-- >> this isn't romney. >> and romney ought to be saying my opponents are wavering around toys gingrich and santorum and president obama is standing in front of

an empty pipeline trying to use a symbolism. and if you want to fix the economy i'm your guy and-- >> all of us have to come up with deadlines and columns and you could just tell that novac when he talks about chutes and ladders and all of that was looking for another thing to say. >> jon: up next on news watch, the tebow show comes to the nation's number one media market. what could possibly go wrong? >> big news in the big apple, quarterback tim tebow is headed to the mean, green jets, along with his public displays of his faith. is this a big win for the team? or the tabloids? that's next. on news watch. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy to the united states. over the coming years, projects like these could create more than half a million jobs in the us alone.

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then when the deal was finally done that. was the title. he has been labeled competitive and controversial what kind of treatment can he expect from the new york press. >> the new york media is going to treat it one of two ways. if he does well, everything is fine. if he wins, no problem. if he loses, i think the media will resort to what liberals in the media and liberals in the general population have done, they make fun of people of faith. tim pebow was probably the most polarizing figure in the entire world of sports for only one reason, he was a religious kid. >> but he sold more jerseys than anyone else in the n.f.l. this year. thanks to our panel. i'm jon scott. thanks for watching. keep it here on fox news