Since its founding in 2017, the Supreme Court Observer, which describes itself as a “living archive” of the Supreme Court, promised to be a breath of fresh air in a world of social media-driven legal journalism and commentary that is often polemical and partisan.
To quote from SCO’s own mission statement, “Legal journalism in today’s India is mired with issues of reliability, sensationalisation, overzealousness, verbose-technical writing and for-profit journalism.” In this backdrop, it promised to provide a higher quality of reporting and, as an occasional reader, I think it did succeed to a large extent.
