The United States Supreme Court issued an opinion today with far-reaching implications for free speech protections from government censorship via third parties. The network evening newscasts chose NOT to cover that ruling, choosing instead to cover an inadvertently published and quickly retracted ruling on the left’s apex issue: abortion.
The erroneously published opinion led CBS and NBC’s newscasts. ABC’s top story, as on most nights, was the weather. Here’s how NBC opened the Nightly News:
LESTER HOLT: We start with one of the most anticipated decisions the Supreme Court will issue in these final days of its term, a ruling on Idaho’s near total ban on abortion. The Court has not yet officially released its decision on whether emergency abortions can be allowed in Idaho. But, for a brief time today, a draft of the ruling appeared on the Court’s…
