Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS...
by DanielBMarkham on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:03PM
(#5995974)
Yes, absolutely correct.
Hey, I'm as much a hair-on-fire, crazy ranting privacy and anonymity freak as anybody else, but this, pandering to this issue is getting insane. I'd suggest eliminating most HN articles that mention a politician or political figure. This is just the same old political columnists we had before (and I like reading all of them), tacking on the current issue to whatever other agendas they already have.
So enough with the criticisms of Obama, or saying Roberts has unlimited power, and so on. Many of these folks already knew how they felt about those political folks. Ezra Klein leading with security state, then several graphs in goes to "...Roberts’s nominations to the FISA court are almost exclusively Republican..." Good grief. This is a serious issue, not the usual political commentary bullshit.
For many writers though, either the issues do not matter to them or it's impossible to see things in terms other than the political rut they live in. These articles are just PR hacks. Take issue A, add in public personality B, throw in some invective -> pageviews.
It is way to easy to overshoot on stuff like this. These problems as they exist are policy problems, not personality or partisan problems. Yes, I know, personalities and personal stories sell newspapers and get eyeballs, but we hackers should be smarter than this. As you point out, the article even gets the facts wrong. Roberts appoints justices to an administrative court, not a criminal court. I know you can argue that this article is not specifically about Roberts, but about the Chief Justice. But still, the title and the big picture of Roberts is just too much. This is crap. It's political, ass-covering crap designed to make one party look better and the other worse. This is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.
I will try to be a little more clear: If you care about which party is to blame or which party will get ahead, or if you're spinning issues to make one person better or criticize another, you're part of the problem and not the solution.
One additional nit: every judicial member appointed for life may also be removed by the Senate by impeachment -- although the power has only been used a handful of times.
Hey, I'm as much a hair-on-fire, crazy ranting privacy and anonymity freak as anybody else, but this, pandering to this issue is getting insane. I'd suggest eliminating most HN articles that mention a politician or political figure. This is just the same old political columnists we had before (and I like reading all of them), tacking on the current issue to whatever other agendas they already have.
So enough with the criticisms of Obama, or saying Roberts has unlimited power, and so on. Many of these folks already knew how they felt about those political folks. Ezra Klein leading with security state, then several graphs in goes to "...Roberts’s nominations to the FISA court are almost exclusively Republican..." Good grief. This is a serious issue, not the usual political commentary bullshit.
For many writers though, either the issues do not matter to them or it's impossible to see things in terms other than the political rut they live in. These articles are just PR hacks. Take issue A, add in public personality B, throw in some invective -> pageviews.
It is way to easy to overshoot on stuff like this. These problems as they exist are policy problems, not personality or partisan problems. Yes, I know, personalities and personal stories sell newspapers and get eyeballs, but we hackers should be smarter than this. As you point out, the article even gets the facts wrong. Roberts appoints justices to an administrative court, not a criminal court. I know you can argue that this article is not specifically about Roberts, but about the Chief Justice. But still, the title and the big picture of Roberts is just too much. This is crap. It's political, ass-covering crap designed to make one party look better and the other worse. This is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.
I will try to be a little more clear: If you care about which party is to blame or which party will get ahead, or if you're spinning issues to make one person better or criticize another, you're part of the problem and not the solution.
One additional nit: every judicial member appointed for life may also be removed by the Senate by impeachment -- although the power has only been used a handful of times.
[corrected for clarity]