This morning the Supreme court issued a ruling In Lewis v Chicago in which it held that claims of discrimination filed by black firefighters in Chicago were timely. I read three separate articles about the decision as well as reading the decision. What I found was amazing. The Washington Post article accurately described the decision. The article in the Los Angeles Times seemed to be about a completely different decision; it went on at great length about hte substance of the claim -- even though that was not the issue before the court. Indeed, the LA Times did not even discuss the timelines issue. the third article was just a general wire service mish mash that was far from clear about what had been decided.
In our society, too many people get defective news from media that should know better. How can they assign someone to write about a decision of the Supreme Court who obviously does not even know how to read a decision?
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