Matt Walsh

If you've ever made the mistake of installing a bunch of news apps on your phone, then you're probably familiar with the push notification bomb.

And that's when breaking news happens.

And within a few minutes, you get a dozen different alerts, all of which tell you the same thing.

If a plane crashes or something, and you'll hear about it over and over and over again,

until you finally snap and delete the apps from your phone.

Or I guess you could change your notification settings, assuming you're able to figure out a user interface that's designed seemingly on purpose to make everything impossible.

But anyway, every now and then, breaking news involves a topic that isn't cut and dried like a plane crash.

And sometimes breaking news involves a Supreme Court decision consisting of thousands of words, a majority opinion, and a dissent.

And in those cases, the push notification bomb is...

actually sort of revealing.

So take a look at this swarm of push notifications that were sent yesterday by several different news organizations after a decision came down from the Supreme Court.

The New York Times reports, quote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado law banning sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy for minors.

Fox reports that the Supreme Court rules on conversion therapy ban challenged by Christian counselor.

NBC says that the Supreme Court rules against Colorado's ban on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ youth.

And the AP declares that, quote, the Supreme Court ruled against a law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ plus kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice.

Meanwhile, ABC ran this report.

Watch.

Now what's remarkable is that in that segment and every push alert from every single outlet, the term conversion therapy is used as if it's a real thing.

which it isn't.

None of the outlets tell you that it was an eight to one decision in their push alerts either.