Morning Digest: Louisiana cancels House primaries so GOP can target Black districts
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more These headlines are wrong: That’s not what happened at all. The Supreme Court did not “weaken” or “limit” the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday. It eviscerated the law. And not only did the court’s far-right supermajority gut the VRA, the justices cynically pretended as though they weren’t doing just that. But the way these headlines—two on the left from the Washington Post, two on the right from the New York Times—present the story is so misleading as to be flat-out incorrect. And it wasn’t just these two outlets. Many others, including CNN and the Associated Press, used the exact same language. This is a serious problem, because millions of Americans still get their news from traditional media giants. And as we all know, people often don’t read further than the headlines in today’s harried world. Independent media, though, got this story right, from the headline on down. In our initial story publishe...