here next week. . >> jon: on fox news watch. >> everybody has to buy food. sooner or later. so you define it as food and therefore, everybody is in the market, therefore, you can make people buy broccoli. >> jon: the u.s. supreme court tackles the issue surrounding obamacare and asking tough questions. and many in the news media attempt to attack the conservative justices and how is the media react if it's shot down. the trayvon martin shooting case gets more press coverage as a new video emerges of the man who pulled the trigger. and have journalists done their best with the difficult case or has all objectivity been lost? >> an open mic catches president obama asking the russians for a special favor leading up to the election in november. is this something the media should be giving more

attention? >> it's-- rick santorum takes a new york times reporter to task, accusing the times of manipulating his message. did the attack help or hurt? and it's the return of a television legend. >> you say in san diego. >> on the panel, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. monica crowley, jim pinkerton, a contributing editor, the conservative magazine and columnist for the daily beast, kirsten powers, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ >> the supreme court justices should now have all the information they need to decides on your health care coverage. >> in a landmark case the supreme court began arguments on the sweeping overhaul. >> marathon argument that the supreme court over president obama's health care law.

>> jon: very big week in the national media when it comes to coverage. presentation of the supreme court case and the ultimate decision these justices will make. jim, the media didn't have much to do except speculate what the justices are going to decide, is that the appropriate way to go about this? >> well, yeah, you've got to fill up the time, right? including us here. and i counted five different media stories, one is what's inside the courtroom. and so scalia and-- and the second outside of the supreme court and third the spin as to what would happen, if the obamacare is either upheld or overturned and fourth, the paul ryan budget and health care impacts and fifth, the presidential election, although my favorite was the new york times editorial, saying we want the supreme court to realize its limitations and not-- after 40 years of praising activists judges, whoever they're now saying, listen, school district construction is the way to go. >> and what about the media and the role in interpreting what's happened this week? >> well, you can really see

the kind of collective, omg taking place in the media, because those people who had predicted that this was a no-brainer and a clear win for the president, are now backing away. and, and for example, very well-known and well respected commentator told cnn. you know, this is going to be a train wreck for the administration if he loses it and jim carville was out there spinning, say, no, no, no, it's good, good for the democrats because then the republican will be saddled with this issue. >> politico had a headline at that said cnn's tuben ruins podus or scotu schs for p ochlo it's interesting, the people who predicted it would stand were the legal analyst and

people on the-- political analysts were more likely to say it wouldn't, because they were willing to accept the idea that there could be politics in the united stat supreme court. they weren't anticipating the arguments that scalia, that could have come from national review. it's a conservative, political view and he so, i think that, i don't know if it's going to analyze enough for the people to understand that dynamic. >> will this ruling affect the election? >> sure. either way it will impact what's happening in november. what's interesting, because the supreme court didn't have any cameras, you didn't have sights, only sounds and left for everybody in the media and american people at large to supply their own dramas, and we certain got it with jeffrey and others running out of the court with breathless analysis what happened. and nobody knows for sure. in fact the justices until on friday with the straw vote how it would come down.

what's interesting, what kirsten is talking about, too, how many legal analysts especially those on the left, it never sort of dawned on them that the constitutionality of obamacare would be in question, even though this thing has been debated in public for the last three years. >> it has been an opportunity for the press to give us all a civics lesson. have he they taken advantage of it? >> i think they've done their best to cover this. i mean, they can't resist the details, like whether the solicitor general stuttered or not and how many glasses of water he drank and so on. yeah, i think the press have said, look, stipulated mostly in favor of obamacare and then once survived, it's the most important supreme court case. >> the graphic was shown time and time again, the generally liberal court members versus the generally conservative ones, four on four with anthony kennedy, probably somewhere in the middle. and constructing this as a liberal versus conservative argument, maybe not so much a constitutional question. >> well, i think it--

that's the way it's now being seen is liberal versus conservative and everyone pitching to kennedy, who is soft on freedom, apparently. so, everybody's trying to couch the argument that way, but you know, i think this is an easier story for the print media to cover than television, it's really hard to compress a lot of these arguments into a minute and a half and abc chose not to do so, right, exactly. >> without the images and even with the audio, radio doesn't make great television. more news watch coming up, ahead, has george zimmerman already been tried in the media for the killing of trayvon martin? >> media interest in the trayvon martin killing heats up for a second week as details of the shooting and accusations of racism compete for coverage. has the press been pushed by a liberal agenda or have the national media provided objective reporting? answers next. on news watch.

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>> i'm not going to be politically correct. i'm going to say it like i see it. trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog. he was shot in the street. he was racially profiled. >> jon: florida congresswoman fredericka wilson with her take on the trayvon martin shooting. her comments to the media after a hearing she chaired on racial profiling. the parents of trayvon martin also attended the hearing. the story continues to get coverage, kirsten, but is what the congressman, is what she said true? do we know? >> no, we don't know that. and i think that that's the problem. that people are saying things as if these are facts and if there's been any conclusion. i will say that i think a lot of this is driven by the fact that people feel there should be an arrest and i will go out

and actually say i think that the races had been reversed if a black person did this to a white or hispanic person, they would have been arrested so, i think that because of the lack of arrest, it's getting people more incited about it and i don't think that the police department is coming out and clearing stating why he hasn't been arrested. he did kill somebody. what is self-defense when you have an unarmed person. >> how much of a story has been created in the media? >> well, there are some tragic facts here and one tragic fact, the young man is dead. that's about all we know, and as donna and melanie wrote on friday, the fact that no other facts are really for sure hasn't stopped everybody from weighing in, like as the person said, like they know some things, like they have a truth there to share. i think the only thing we know, i know for sure, other

than trayvon martin is dead is that roseanne barr and spike lee, both in their own way, contributed to the creation of a would-be lynch mob with irresponsible tweets. >> jon: yeah, what spike lee did, for those who don't know, he sent out to his hundreds of thousands of twitter followers, sent out an address he believed belonged to george zimmerman the shooter. it turned out to be the wrong address. now, in that way, isn't he inciting the same kind of violence that killed emmitt till decades ago. >> i clearly don't think that this kind of behavior is helpful in this case, where people are so inflamed and feelings are so sensitive and hot about this. look, i think because of the media we know a lot more about this, jim, than we knew last week, we know, for example, because of reporting that the chief prosecutor recommended that zimmerman be arrested and we did not know at that the last time we talked about that, and we also nthis case,

we also know that mr. zimmerman apparently did not have a broken nose and was bloody when he was taken to the police station because we have the video. >> i don't know what that video shows, i want to get to that. the police in sanford released that video this week, we'll play it here in a second and it shows george zimmerman, but here was the reaction from many in the media. >> welcome to politics nation, i'm al sharpton, tonight, dramatic new video that could turn the trayvon martin case upside down. and bring us one step closer to justice. this new sanford police video shows trayvon's killer, george zimmerman arriving at the police station just minutes after the shooting. >> well, it was roughly 45 minutes after the shooting, according to the time stamp on the tape, but does it show us anything? >> maybe, maybe not. maybe there was a medic called

to the scene who cleaned up blood had there been blood. we don't know. and remarkable two things. the shooting take place on february 23rd. weeks went by before anybody heard about this case. what happens in the interim. that's something that should be investigated and reported. the other point just like with the obamacare coverage on the supreme court this week, we've had an orgy of rampant speculation, one photo line and a video came out and another narrative and nobody knows for sure, it's incredibly irresponsible for members of the media and particularly members of congress to go out better to go out with the rushes to judgment. >> the shooting was on the 26th and there was a medic who apparently cleaned up george zimmerman on the scene. what about the the new black panther party issuing this

bounty for george zimmerman, i mean, should there be the same level of media outrage was there was for the trayvon martin. >> no, not the same level. the new black panthers hardly exist, four members, they have he' been condemned by the actual black panthers and i don't want to overstate what they've done, it's terrible to do that and i think that anybody who is, you know, trying to incite racial problems or hatred should be called to account, but i would not compare it to someone else being killed. >> and pick up on al sharpton on msnbc. as many reporters noted. what remains is the group. how could this guy be both an anchor person and an activist with the bull horn on the same time, and just to flip it, what would happen if sean hannity were leaving his show to go do a rally for some criminal justice prosecution somewhere, i mean, when hannity came close to seemingly being a part of the

tea party, fox yanked him away from the event a couple of years ago, the double standard, of course, sharpton, he can do both, be a demagogue and a tv anchor, and shouldn't be gone unnoted. >> have a history of-- >> more news watch coming up. if you see something that you believe shows evidence of media bias. e-mail us, news watch@foxnews.com. and up next, rick santorum attacks the new york times. >> quit distorting my words. >> rick santorum rips into the new york times for misrepresenting his message about g.o.p. front runner romney. did attacking the media help or hurt? and president obama sends a secret message to the russians, but the mic was on! >> how did the media react? all next on news watch. tom, check this out. good gravy, bill. our insurance company doesn't have anything like it. magnificent, isn't it?

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>> neither our president nor russian president knew the mic was on in seoul, south korea when the president said the words and some critics say the president gave us a glimpse into his future foreign policy if he wins the second term. did the media do enough? >> they didn't seem terribly interested and didn't really want to connect it to other great events like dick cheney and back in 2000, major league, if you remember that one. and joe biden and the health care bill. this is why television can be so compelling. >> jon: it isn't just talking

about politics, it's talking about foreign policy and disarmament. >> two frightening things were said in that exchange. the first was the president of the united states whispering not thinking he's listened to except by the russian president and the said after the election i'll have more flexibility. flexibility for what, once you're reelected and a moment out of the dr. strangelove when the russian president i will transmit this information to vladimir and that is scary. >> monica, in a sense, the story, which is a legitimate story and should be a political issue, i think, because it reflects a lot about this president and his views an undermined by speaker boehner, as long as the president is overseas we're not going to criticize him. why not? why not criticize him when he does something like at that over j seas as opposed to american territory. i don't get the standard.

>> what about mitt romney, he came out and suggested that the russians were maybe our most potent enemy right now. that seemed to get more coverage than the obama remark. >> well, i mean, he definitely stepped on the story for the republicans, because by saying this that was pretty frightening stuff, i think, you know, the obama thing, actually the question is what did it mean? i think that everyone sort of accepts that people push things off until when they're running for reelection or in a, you know, a hot primary season, or you know, election season, but what did that mean? i didn't see that covered at that well and distracted by romney's comment. >> let's talk about somebody else in the republican race ap the media, take a listen. >> and work for republicans and-- >> and barack obama on the issue of health care, because he fashioned the blueprint. i've been saying it at every speech the quit distorting my words. if i see it, it's (bleep) >> that's republican presidential candidate rick santorum losing it on new york

times reporter jeff zelaney claiming the reporter was twisting his words about romney. >> what he's trying to do is make a case to republican voters here and a common tactic for republican presidential candidates or democratic presidential candidates to try to use the media as a foil. he clearly knew the cameras were rolling here. >> jon: does santorum have a case? >> well, look, santorum has problems here, the use of the expletive worked against his born again evangelical brand and he was on the down slope, and slipping in the polls and mitt romney looked like the ultimate nominee so the traction was not going to happen for him and the third point is that what rick santorum was saying here, now, when you go after the media as a conservative, you have to go about it in the rye way. newt gingrich knows how to do it, you go full frontal at the left wing media and then back off. what he was doing there, and

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now and open the window and stick your head out and yell, i'm as mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore. >> played by actor mad as hell speech in the classic "network," one of the few memorable films about the tv news business. broadcast news hit it with albert brooks and holly hunter and a film about a love triangle in a setting of new york newsroom. it introduced us to the term flop sweat. then came soon to be a classic. >> i'm ron burgundy. >> thanks for stopping by. >> thanks for stopping by. >> jon: anchorman, played brilliantly by will ferrell.

that was 2004 and eight years later just when you thought the airwaves and movie theaters was safe from the likes of ron burgundy. >> conan, you look awful. [ laughter ] >> what? i look awful? >> you look like someone put a bright red wig on a skeleton and chucked it out of a helicopter. >> you came on my show to play the flute and insult me. was that the idea? >> no, paramount pictures and myself and ronald joseph and ron burgundy have come to terms on a sequel. >> jon: that is the wrap on news watch this week. thanks to our panel. i'm jon scott. thanks for watching. keep it right here on fox new