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CBS Frames New Haven as 'Conservative' Justices vs 'Civil Rights Leaders'

In the midst of pretty balanced ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscast stories on the Ricci reverse discrimination case involving New Haven firefighters, who were victorious, one quibble: CBS's Wyatt Andrews framed the ruling as issued by the Supreme Court's "conservative" justices and opposed not by liberals but by "civil rights leaders," as if the majority of justices who ruled against the racial discrimination were not advancing civil rights.

Andrews announced that "in a close 5 to 4 decision, the court's swing vote, Anthony Kennedy, sided with conservatives," before he set up a soundbite from a representative of the NAACP: "Civil rights leaders also predicted an era of confusion over when minorities are protected and when they are not." The NAACP's John Payton declared: "I think it hurts the cause of having a discrimination-free workplace."

Neither ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg nor NBC's Pete Williams applied a conservative or liberal label.

The Andrews story on the Monday, June 29 CBS Evening News, joined in progress:

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