Posted on 08/27/2015 10:16:37 AM PDT by Drango
~snip stuff above
Finally, a listener named Juana Oner, who said she was from the "Hartford area" of Connecticut, wanted to know why a search of NPR.org turned up no coverage of the protests at more than 300 Planned Parenthood clinics this past weekend.
Gerry Holmes, an NPR deputy managing editor who was the editor on duty that day, told me, "The network was notified of the planned events, but that information did not make it to me as duty editor for Saturday. And on the day of the protests, I didn't get notice from any of our member stations about the events in their cities and didn't see any other media reporting either. It turns out our member station in Boston, WBUR, did do one news piece on the Boston protests and Reuters did a story, as well. If we had seen more reports, we would have assessed and responded accordingly. NPR News has covered this story extensively over the last few weeks and plans to continue coverage going forward. Thank you for bringing this to our attention."
(And stop claiming the Guttmacher Institute is non partisan. It isn't.)
“The network was notified of the planned events, but that information did not make it to me as duty editor for Saturday. And on the day of the protests, I didn’t get notice from any of our member stations about the events in their cities and didn’t see any other media reporting either. It turns out our member station in Boston, WBUR, did do one news piece on the Boston protests and Reuters did a story, as well. If we had seen more reports, we would have assessed and responded accordingly. NPR News has covered this story extensively over the last few weeks and plans to continue coverage going forward. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.”
Sure, and I’m the King of France!
It's part of Planned Parenthood.
“Your excuse for not reporting on protests at over 300 abortion clinics is you didn’t see the story?”
I actually believe them. They live in such an isolated, left-wing fantasy world that they are cut off from reality. Things happen that they literally do not know about. I have encountered this with liberals on many occasions.
Same as when a million TEA people showed up in DC and only got a brief mention as ‘thousands’ of people, taking extra care to make sure any photos made the group look sparse.
Circular logic: They didn’t report on it because it wasn’t being reported on.
To a liberal this makes sense. Of course, to a liberal having a gay sex offender as a Scoutmaster makes sense, too.
About 25 years ago, the Ombudsman at the Washington Post dealt with the issue of why the Post covered a NOW march for weeks and weeks AHEAD of time, with maps of the march route, etc., etc., etc., while they printed nothing about the March for Life except a small story that day AFTER.
The Ombudsman reported that a reporter at the Post said to him: “I don’t know anyone who’s against abortion.”
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