Distressed Out

Democracy dies in darkness… And in bad editorial choices? A couple weeks ago, we learned the very disturbing news that an upside down flag had been flown outside of Samuel Alito’s house. But the story itself wasn’t new. It was just unreported. Three years ago, WaPo investigated the same flag story and opted not to publish it. Did they make the right choice? “The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was ‘an international signal of distress’ and indicated that it had been raised in response to a neighborhood dispute.” WaPo (Gift Article): Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag signal of distress. (Housewives of SCOTUS is gonna be Bravo’s biggest show.)