NBC News smears the Supreme Court with horrifyingly bad coverage
NBC News smears the Supreme Court with horrifyingly bad coverage
The Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court rightly struck down a Trump-era gun control regulation last week. Now the fallout is utterly breaking the brains of partisans and ideologues in the legacy media.
There’s no better example of this phenomenon than NBC News correspondent Erin McLaughlin, whose coverage after the court’s decision has been so horrifically bad it should be shown in journalism courses under “what not to do.”
In a package for the Today Show on Monday morning, McLaughlin covered a spate of mass shootings from the past weekend. Bizarrely, she connected these shootings to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down former President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban “bump stocks,” an accessory that helps someone fire a gun at a faster rate, via executive action.