Posted on 04/29/2013 1:17:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Forty two days ago, on March 18, 2013, abortionist Kermit Gosnell went on trial, charged with the grisly murder of multiple babies and a patient. Yet, in the seven weeks that followed, ABC News has permitted no coverage, discussion or mention of the case, not even a single utterance of Dr. Gosnell’s name.
But that’s not due to lack of interest in shocking criminal cases. Over the same 42 days, the Media Research Center found that ABC’s Good Morning America has aired 41 stories — about one per day — on other sensational criminal cases, including the Amanda Knox re-trial and the Jodi Arias case, totaling 109 minutes of coverage.
So it would seem that ABC doesn’t have a problem delivering the gruesome details of murder cases to morning show viewers, suggesting that the networks’ blackout of the Gosnell case has more to do with the negative light it shines on the abortion industry.
Over six weeks of weekday and weekend coverage, GMA featured the Arias case 22 times. Arias is accused of stabbing and slitting the throat of Travis Alexander, her ex-boyfriend. Clearly, the producers and hosts of the morning show aren’t worried about discussing stomach-churning details. The Associated Press recounted the graphic accusations against Gosnell, including testimony by some of the abortion clinic’s workers that they "'snipped' babies' necks after they were born alive to make sure they died."
Both the Gosnell case and the Amanda Knox retrial deal with brutal murder. Yet, while ABC ignored the wrenching details of dead babies, Ms. Knox’s story received nine segments on GMA. (The remaining ten cases included the Michael Jackson wrongful death suit, a murder trial in Georgia, the murder of a University of Virginia lacrosse player and updates on the case against spree killer James Holmes.)
It’s not as though ABC can claim the Boston bombing as a reason to ignore the Gosnell case. The abortionist’s trial had been ongoing for a full month before the April 15 terrorist attack. Additionally, on the April 17 Good Morning America, as the manhunt for the perpetrators went on, the program featured a full report on the Arias murder.
On April 14, the Washington Post investigated the media’s lack of interest in Gosnell. Representatives for CBS and NBC offered comments about lack of coverage and plans to cover the story in the future. ABC was silent. The Post’s Paul Farhi succinctly summarized, "An ABC News representative, Julie Townsend, declined comment."
CBS and NBC have both offered minor coverage of the Gosnell case. What is ABC’s excuse for a total blackout? Clearly, the network is interested in criminal cases with shocking, brutal details. Forty one stories over 109 minutes and 26 seconds prove this.
The horrifying details of the Jodi Arias case, the Amanda Knox murder trial and rest are tragic stories with real victims. Their importance should not be downplayed or dismissed as purely sensational. But the lives of innocent babies, allegedly murdered in appalling circumstances, are also significant. Is it too much to ask that ABC’s hosts and producers cover a story, even if it doesn't match the political agenda of pro-abortion liberals?
[Thanks to MRC intern Jeffrey Meyer for assistance.]
botched, bloody abortions with a mutilated mother and a butchered baby are about as unsexy as it can get. They will never get a minute of play.
American MSM = Fifth Column
I get my news from the UK.
He much coverage did ABC Snooze gove the Scott Peterson trial? I believe in that trial he murdered his wfe’s unborn baby.
Give not gove...
Damn you spell check!
Peterson was 24/7
They’re all post abortive or close to some. That includes the men.
Gosnell is no different from any of them. They’re all about killing babies.
They’re just coming around to the reality. When it hits, it’ll be brutal.
Correct.
I think many of us may have underestimated the degree to which the news outlets are protective of the left. We all know they are biased but we have a guy here who is killing out of the womb babies. No amount of spin can alter the fact that this is infanticide. It being spiked because they will not run anything to help the pro-life side, the perp is black and Obama voted against the born alive act. The fact that all the news spiked this is telling. Is it automatic or was there collusion? Either way there is little or no difference between what we face and the propaganda machines of the third Reich and the Soviet Union. My guess is they ignored the story independently of each other, which is the worse of the two possibilities. It also means there is little hope the 52% will ever be exposed to the truth about anything.
The phrase that needs to be used over and over is:
“House of Horrors!”
>> I think many of us may have underestimated the degree to which the news outlets are protective of the left.
Not me. The leftwing faction of media is the Country’s greatest threat.
Kimberly Guilfoyle of The Five was in the courtroom to watch the closing arguments. She said if the babies were already dead why did they get their spines snipped, it does make no sense. I agree it doesn’t
Today Gosnell's defense said he is being singled out for prosecution because he is black. He's really mocha like Obama and Holder and Reverend Wright. Whenever I see Gosnell he looks like a mound of rotting pork chops.
Logic.
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