With the exception of V Venkatesan (The Hindu) none of the other reporters seem to possess even the basic ability to read a judgment or understand legal nuance before bashing out headlines and stories.

I have seen the process myself.

All reporters are restricted to the visitors’ galleries in the Supreme Court, placed behind the advocates’s section in each Court and furthest from the judges. Half the time, they don’t hear a thing because of their position (not all judges and lawyers have booming voices either, and the acoustics in the smaller courtrooms are atrocious). The other half, they mishear things, and in a ridiculous game of chinese whispers pass on the incorrect information to each other, and ultimately, their listeners. Only on rare occasions do they even bother checking with the lawyer in a case what actually happened before going to town on something.