Posted on 01/26/2004 9:24:35 PM PST by swilhelm73
Why no coverage of the March for Life?
1. Reporters are dramatically “pro-abortion rights.” One 1995 survey by Stanley Rothman and Amy Black found the number at 97 percent.
2. A corollary: the March is (appropriately) held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but liberal reporters probably see this interloping holiday protest as the civil rights equivalent of David Duke hosting a march on Martin Luther King’s birthday. How dare they wave their baby signs on Kate Michelman Day!
3. Unlike highly promoted anti-war rallies, pro-life marches show an embarrassingly huge mass of people marching for the wrong side. The press only reports on protests to bolster their own political preferences as the voice of the people, which most do. If they cover this routinely massive march, they might cause viewers to wonder why the feminists can only hold a march (in warm weather) about once every dozen years.
4. The March for Life is not strident and Dean-screamy from the podium, but solemn and prayerful and mourning. That would clash with their media profile of pro-lifers are violent haters.
5. A corollary: not only are the speakers in a religious mode, a vast majority of the marchers are conservative Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Media secularists think their views should not be mixed in with the business of state. (That sort of mixes in with Stan’s mention of class snobbery, that media types might think intensely religious people are only found in churches and trailer parks.)
6. The speakers aren’t high-profile enough. President Bush’s phoner is always cheered and appreciated, but imagine the coverage if he walked down the South Lawn with his detail and surprised the crowd by speaking in person. Memo to Karl Rove: it’s sad the president is brave enough to go to Baghdad, but travels to New Mexico instead of being “too” prominent in the culture of life.
well... he will probably always have something else to do... gotta cut the ribbon on a federally funded wading pool in Utah or something... much more important than that march thingy.
...and a Democrat president would not only NOT even call in.....
..he/she would also be busy....very busy....dismantling every single Pro-life achievement we are finally getting during the Bush Presidency!
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