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It was good of the Wall Street Journal to at least publish a front page teaser about someone being charged with the attempted murder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The major newspapers here in Connecticut, the Hartford Courant and the Waterbury Republic-American , could not be bothered to do even that.
The Rep-Am has a front page teaser on Jeff Goldblum coming back for the final Jurassic Park movie. But the attempted assassination of a U.S. Supreme Court justice? No space for a lesser story like that, I guess.
The New York Times ran a long, well-reported story — buried on page 20. The Washington Post did a little better. It also ran a long-well-reported story, and even put it on page one, but only the beginning paragraphs in the upper left-hand corner of the home page — the worst spot on the page. What If?
But what if Kavanaugh hadn’t been a Trump appointee and one of the votes to overturn Roe v. Wade ? What if, instead, someone had been charged with the attempted murder of Ruth Bader Ginsburg right before the Obergerfell ruling in 2015? Or, say, the attempted murder of Sotomayor right before a gun rights decision?
The Journal would have managed more than a front page teaser. Our local papers would have covered it. The Times and the Post would have blared the story across the front page. Both would have been filled editorials and columns about “the growing right-wing menace,” “the Republican war on democracy,” “the Trump-led right’s destruction of American institutions.”
It would be a front-burner story for months afterward. They wouldn’t stop talking about it. The action of a disturbed loner would be presented as an example of what the American right is really about.
And if the target were Ginsberg or Sotomayor, would Nancy Pelosi […]
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