Meanwhile, Big Journalism is treating the Republicans' increasingly effective voter suppression as either a non-story or something to be noticed once in a while -- when it is the official policy of the Republican Party to prevent likely Democratic voters from casting ballots or having their votes counted.
Why aren't media orgs as relentless about this? The logical answer is that they just don't give a damn.
Dan Gillmor /
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