WaPo reporter: I’m not covering the Gosnell abortionist trial because it’s not really a policy story

Canada Free Press ^ | April 12, 2013 | Dan Calabrese

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One person deserves the bulk of the credit for bringing to light the media’s criminal neglect of the Gosnell trial, and that’s liberal columnist Kirsten Powers. Yeah, she is often conservatives’ favorite liberal (although I have a few others), not only because she’s a Christian, but also because she is intellctually honest and refuses to parrot the left-wing company line on stuff like Benghazi or even the treatment of Sarah Palin.

But she’s still a liberal and a strong Obama supporter, so you have to give her credit for calling the media out like this. Today on Facebook, Powers links to a very revealing post by blogger Mollie at the Get Religion blog (whose premise is that the media do not get religion, and boy is that true). Mollie looked specifically at the recent work of Washington Post health policy reporter Sarah Kliff, and noticed an abundance of coverage on stories that advance left-wing narratives - followed by total silence concerning the Gosnell trial. Mollie writes:

"I have critiqued many of her stories on the Susan G. Komen Foundation (she wrote quite a bit about that) and the Sandra Fluke controversy (she wrote quite a bit about that) and the Todd Akin controversy (you know where this is going). In fact, a site search for that reporter — who is named Sarah Kliff — and stories Akin and Fluke and Komen — yields more than 80 hits. Guess how many stories she’s done on this abortionist’s mass murder trial."

"Did you guess zero? You’d be right."

But Mollie didn’t stop there. She contacted Kliff and asked her about the discrepancy, and received this astounding response from Kliff:

"Hi Molly – I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime..."

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Let me get this straight: the Sandy Hook massacre is news because it advances a liberal policy (gun Control), but murdering babies under the guise of “reproductive rights” isn’t. The truth about liberals does spill of their own mouths out once in a while.