Posted on 08/27/2024 12:40:18 PM PDT by Morgana
One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets.
First, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun violence laws” (a term the PBS News Hour also uses). Anchor Geoff Bennett expanded that "language" argument to encompass abortion.
Anchor Geoff Bennett, 9:50 p.m. (ET): We have seen Democrats do that on abortion, talking less about abortion rights and more about reproductive freedom. To what degree does the language matter, Amy [Walter]?
Hmm. Who else talks like Democrats by saying “reproductive” rights instead of “abortion”? PBS anchors and reporters! Amusingly, there were couple of incidents on the very same Night Four of the convention, both before Bennett talked about how language mattered, and afterward:
Anchor Geoff Bennett, 8:14 p.m. (ET): Let's talk campaign strategy for a second. Because before you were a senator you were president of Emily’s List, which is an advocacy group that supports Democratic women for office who support reproductive rights. Montana out this past week became the eighth state to put on the ballot come November a ballot measure that will enshrine reproductive rights.
And then afterward:
Anchor Geoff Bennett, 11:19 p.m. (ET): I gotta say, as convention speeches go, I don’t think I’ve ever heard such an extensive discussion of reproductive rights as what we heard earlier tonight.
You can also easily find the admittedly Democratic-friendly term “reproductive rights” spoken by journalists during segments on the tax-funded PBS News Hour:
Judy Woodruff, talking to Republican and Democratic delegates, August 23: Like many of the conversations happening across the country, ours eventually turned to some of the most divisive issues of the day, from immigration to reproductive rights.
Barron-Lopez in Chicago, August 18: But the black women that I spoke to are credibly excited, and they feel as though that the country is ready to elect its first black woman and South Asian president. So they`re hoping that that what they`re feeling is something that a lot of other women are feeling across the country. And a lot of them name issues like reproductive rights and health care and abortion for why they`re excited about Harris.
Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez in Atlanta, August 5: For Maya Eady McCarthy, a doctor who herself experienced pregnancy complications in 2020, the vice president's outspoken advocacy for reproductive rights since the fall of Roe v. Wade stands out.
Anchor Geoff Bennett to reporter Laura Barron-Lopez in Atlanta, July 30: So, Laura, the vice president's speech tonight, as I understand it, is expected to have a sharp focus on reproductive rights. How important of an issue is that for the voters with whom you spoke earlier?
Anchor Amna Nawaz, May 13: Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Republicans have banned abortion in 14 states and restricted it in more. But, when given the chance, voters have overwhelmingly supported ballot initiatives to protect access to the procedure. This election year, abortion will again be a defining issue. Laura Barron-Lopez reports from the battleground of Michigan, where Democrats plan to keep reproductive health care front and center.
FYI: For the above report, reporter Barron-Lopez spoke to another euphemistic organization, Shanay Watson-Whittaker of Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America -- as in the National Abortion Rights Action League).
Anchors and reporters also used the term “abortion” often in most of the above reports. But saying the catch-all term “reproductive rights” as a clear euphemism for the more blunt, possibly less popular term abortion was telling.
These segments echoing liberal euphemisms on abortion were brought to you in part by Raymond James Financial Advisors, and taxpayers like you.
Killing is not reproducing, it’s subtracting. How far has womankind fallen that they now think murdering their baby is their human right. Killing the unborn is one of the most heinous crimes on earth.
I call it Demonic Child Sacrifice.
See Tagline.
The only reproductive rights you have are to keep it in your pants.
If it's rape, then the death penalty is on the table.
Men should learn women lie, and to lie down with a woman that's not your wife you sould face the death penalty!.
Who else talks like Democrats by saying “reproductive” rights instead of “abortion”?
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Just what are they reproducing when they conduct abortions?
They say that some bacteria found on Mars shows there’s life there but a beating heart of a fetus is somehow just non-living cells.
A lot of stuff on the left is like that. Never using the right word.
The Democrats are very astute at making up or modifying words to support their perverted agenda kinda like calling infanticide abortion rights.
Seems to me that if they’re seeking an abortion, they’ve already exercised their reproductive right. What they want is to cancel their reproductive right.
Human beings do not reproduce. Animals reproduce. Humans beings procreate. That means our sexual faculties are meant to be used in cooperation with God. Since God is the Lord and Giver of life, it must be said that strictly speaking, we have ZERO “reproductive rights” to exercise either independently of God or contrary to his law.
To speak of “reproductive rights” is an implicit declaration of atheism or else rebellion. It’s intrinsically demonic.
Ah go sterilize yourself
Reproductive rights are double plus ungood! That was harsh;
is Big Brother going to come get me?
Hey Democrats, you can and do reproduce. Irresponsibly. You just can’t kill your own children. And that is what makes you mad.
1)Yes
2)Yes
3) Ver likely, but they’d NEVER admit it.
Unfortunately, so are 50% (+) of the voters.
The Dems are VERY good at persuasion. They are successfully selling a shell of a candidate, just like they did in the last election.
Palestinians and their domestic supporters say ~40,000 deaths are a genocide.
Are the 65 million deaths of Americans a genocide?
Abortion is probably a violation of international law.
Abortionists might wind up in the dock as German death camp employees did.
“Montana out this past week became the eighth state to put on the ballot come November a ballot measure that will enshrine reproductive rights.”
WIKI
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition. It was the first legal instrument to codify genocide as a crime, and the first human rights treaty unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, on 9 December 1948, during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951 and has 153 state parties as of June 2024.
The Convention defines genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” These five acts include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly. The convention further criminalizes “complicity, attempt, or incitement of its commission.” Member states are prohibited from engaging in genocide and obligated to pursue the enforcement of this prohibition. All perpetrators are to be tried regardless of whether they are private individuals, public officials, or political leaders with sovereign immunity.
“(a) Killing members of the group;”
“(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
The US is a state party.
“all treaties made...shall be the supreme law of the land...anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.”
U.S. Constitution
65 million dead American babies
Who else talks like Democrats by saying “reproductive” rights instead of “abortion”?
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Trump does. He supports them. See link in post 39.
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