The Banality of Bias

[red states rule]

Some in the liberal media are finally covering the abortion doctor who murdered babies who survived the abortion after being dragged kicking and screaming - and they are not happy about it

The bottom line is, their political beliefs prevented them from covering this trial as it may cast abortion in a bad light

Where it belongs






The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/online-furor-draws-press-to-abortion-doctors-trial.html) has finally produced a second news story on the murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell--almost a month after its other story, which briefly recapped the trial's first day. Like the Times's first story, which we cited in yesterday's column (http://bit.ly/138dl9T), this one appears deep inside the paper (on page A12). You almost get the impression the Times doesn't want to be there. More than almost: The paper's editors make it explicit with their headline: "Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor's Trial."


What an amazing headline that is. The editors of the New York Times declare that they're covering the trial under protest, yielding their news judgment to an angry online mob. It's probably the most honest thing they've ever published.


(As an aside, the "online furor" was sparked by a Kirsten Powers (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577/) op-ed in USA Today. Although USA Today is a website, it is also a newspaper with a circulation of 1.8 million, second only to The Wall Street Journal.)


Meanwhile, the Associated Press (http://www.13wmaz.com/news/article/228300/28/Philly-Abortion-Clinic-Workers-Say-They-Saw-Few-Options), which to its credit has been filing daily dispatches throughout the trial, published an odd human-interest story the other day:

They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do.
But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. . . .
In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage, paid by Gosnell under the table.
But for most, it was the best job they could find. The hard-luck stories include an unlicensed doctor who went to medical school in Grenada and was working as a bartender when Gosnell hired him, a doctor who "relinquished her medical license in 2000 to deal with 'post-traumatic stress syndrome,' " and Gosnell himself, whose history the AP sanitizes by describing him as a "gifted student" who "put his medical school education to work as a 1970s-era champion of drug treatment and legal abortions."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324030704578426892205886784.html

[aboutime]

Some in the liberal media are finally covering the abortion doctor who murdered babies who survived the abortion after being dragged kicking and screaming - and they are not happy about it

The bottom line is, their political beliefs prevented them from covering this trial as it may cast abortion in a bad light

Where it belongs



red states rule. We who are for Life should fully support the Liberal idea of Abortions.

Just think about it. Had we not fought against ROE V. WADE so hard as Conservatives. There would be FEWER Democrats to be fooled into voting for Obama.

Now. We are all doomed to put up with, and accept so many FAILED ABORTIONS among us. Some of whom voted TWICE for Obama.

[red states rule]

red states rule. We who are for Life should fully support the Liberal idea of Abortions.

Just think about it. Had we not fought against ROE V. WADE so hard as Conservatives. There would be FEWER Democrats to be fooled into voting for Obama.

Now. We are all doomed to put up with, and accept so many FAILED ABORTIONS among us. Some of whom voted TWICE for Obama.

This sums up the reason why the liberal media is ignoring the MURDERS the "doctor" committed





Abortion: Journalism's Most Sacred Cow


snip


In the years between 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, and the publication of Shaw’s opus, “viability” -- i.e., the amount of time a fetus had to develop before being able to survive outside the womb -- had steadily been shrinking. For journalists who ridiculed conservatives’ supposed hostility to science, this should have been a huge warning flag. Cutting-edge science and traditional religion were in sync. In the press, we were mainly in sync with Democrats.


In 2008, at a joint appearance with John McCain at Saddleback, the sprawling Southern California mega-church founded by evangelical pastor Rick Warren, Barack Obama was asked, “At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”


“Well,” Obama replied, “I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”


This answer prompted widespread ridicule of Obama among social conservatives -- and of the mainstream press for accepting such a dodge. But the exchange between Warren and Obama succinctly illustrates how the sides in this debate talk past one another. Those opposed to abortion frame the question as being about the rights of the unborn. Those who defend it talk about abortion as being integral to a woman’s right to control her own body, a necessity that trumps theological teaching or scientific advancement.


Because it had long ago chosen sides in this debate, the media collaborated with the pro-choice side to sanitize this debate to the point where the details of the procedure abortion are almost never mentioned and the word “abortion” itself extraneous. Who is so sexist they can oppose “a woman’s right to choose”? How un-American to oppose “choice.”


That was where things stood until the arrest of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and his indictment on multiple counts of murder. This was a case with a set of facts so grisly that it mocked the very concept of “choice.” Here is the opening paragraph of the 2011 grand jury report that heralded the legal proceedings against Gosnell:

This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -- and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.”



It is possible to read that entire grand jury report -- and to cover this man’s murder trial -- and still believe strongly in the need for women in our society to maintain control over their reproductive rights. But the elite media seem to have been unwilling to take that chance.


Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/17/abortion_journalisms_most_sacred_cow_117987-2.html#ixzz2QrCaL5nU