Posted on 04/10/2013 4:24:35 PM PDT by raptor22
Media Bias: A basketball coach who shoves and curses at his players merits constant coverage by a media also transfixed by Newtown. But a Philadelphia doctor on trial for murdering a woman and seven babies? It's ignored.
Those who get their news from the three major networks have probably not heard of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, now on trial in Philadelphia, charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder for killing seven babies who survived abortions and a woman who died after a botched pain-killer injection.
Everybody has heard of Mike Rice, the disgraced former Rutgers basketball coach who was fired after video surfaced of him shoving, kicking and yelling at his players, throwing basketballs at them and — most damning — using "homophobic slurs."
According to the Media Research Center, in one week Rice received 41 minutes, 26 seconds of air time on ABC, CBS and NBC in 36 separate news stories. Gosnell received zero coverage.
So much for the media adage that "if it bleeds, it leads."
Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, there ought to be agreement that a squirming infant on a table outside the mother's womb is as worthy of protection from harm as children in classrooms in a school in Connecticut.
If Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing.
Instead, Gosnell is ignored, charged with the deaths of seven aborted babies
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
The lack of coverage is a new low for a media I didn’t think could sink any lower.
hi-cap massacre foreceps aren’t as sexy.
they really are Adminstration PropagandaA(AP).
The media is owned by the Communist Party, for God’s sake...what do expect from them?
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Bread and circuses, folks. Keep the rabble happy and stupid. You gotta' admit, the Dems have quite a racket going.
The Doctor is black which explains everything.
Racism n all
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