Posted on 08/06/2015 7:52:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The liberal mainstream media may have lost their monopoly, but they retain an oligopolistic control over the mindshare of the American public. By choosing to minimize or completely ignore the five videos of released so far of shocking conduct by Planned Parenthood officials, the American public remains overwhelmingly in the dark about the haggling over price in the sale of body parts from fetuses, aka human beings.
Mollie Hemingway reports in The Federalist:
YouGov claims a recent poll shows that “After video releases, opinion of Planned Parenthood little changed.” Buried at the end of their press release, however, is the real story.
The vast majority of Americans — a whopping 70 percent — have heard little to nothing about videos showing the involvement of Planned Parenthood in the harvesting and trafficking of human fetal organs. The revelations from the videos have led to federal and state investigations, calls to end the $530 million a year in taxpayer funding, and questions from human rights activists about the propriety of the practice.
Yet the media have so struggled to cover the story, much less cover it well, that one third of the public has heard literally nothing about them while another 38 percent have heard only a little. Democrats are particularly uninformed on the videos, with more than three out of four reporting they have heard little to nothing about the videos.
Of those who had heard at least a little about the videos, only 45 percent had seen any video, or even a clip from the video. But since only 68 percent of the population had even heard of the video, that means that relatively few Americans — 30.6 percent — had been exposed to even a portion of the video by the media.
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That is EXACTLY how “they” want it too. But, was there a number/percentage of folks who know about cecil?
Not according to what I see on social media.
ANYTIME, ANYPLACE this is mentioned, the boards and forums get swarmed by hundreds of Leftists screaming obscenities at anyone who deviates from the agenda.
If this is astroturf, then it's on a massive scale that we usually only see during selection cycles - which means The Left is pulling all the stops to shut down dissent for this.
Radio news blurbs on the subject have been carefully contrived to sound like its a light story of some bill not passing. No horror or shock the way they normally start with “If it bleeds, it leads.” There is a conspiracy to play it down.
I think if the radio news were to say, “undercover videos have been found showing ...” Everyone listening would be shocked and appalled. But if undercover videos are found showing a white officer with a black perp, they’d be sensationalizing those to the hilt.
They can’t keep the lid on this forever. Not unless a Coronal Mass Ejection of 1859 proportions smacks into the planet and wipes out the internet.
It’s going to come out and it’s going to mean the death of the establishment Republican Party.
The dems will survive, because the dems have no problem with anything that PP does, baby parts and all. But there are a lot of Low Information Republicans out there, supporting their chamber of commerce candidates... and they will eventually wake up.
I am certain of it.
Unless the world (or the internet) ends.
Conservatives need billboards on all major city highways that will change headlines simultaneously to read these alerts by the flip of a switch. Anti-hackers needed. Maybe the guys at Google will help.
How can 70% not know anything about this with facebook and twitter?? I don’t believe this.
The media deliberately and intentionally suppressed the truth, then hyped the lion to get people’s minds off baby parts.
I know the media hides important stories, but this story has actually appeared on CNN a few times, FoxNews front page several times, and non-stop on talk radio.
It’s kind of hard to believe it’s really that low.
We have got to demand that the government keep suppressing this news. We have got to demand that they stop forcing ABCNBCCNNCBSPBS from airing this news.
Whoops, the governement isn’t suppressing it, it is those above named and once ‘news organizations’ that are willfully suppressing the news about this slaughter of innocents.
They could have ended the sentence right there.
They know nothing about this, but they all know that some evil rich Republican killed Cecil, the loving and caring lion who was protecting all of the local African children and their goats.
Yup. I had to enlighten my Millenial daughter who, like most of them, gets just about all of her news from social media and had heard ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about this.
Sadly, nearly 70% of USAiasn know little to nothing about anything with any value.
The re-election of Obama in 2012 removed any doubt that the government and media are one and the same.
It’s gotten worse. Younger voters have been captured by social media, which is run by Obama sychophants at Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. They capture them into closed loops of Leftist propaganda and then filter the propaganda for greater purity.
It’s very convenient when you face your bible thumping son to say you haven’t heard about the Planned Parenthood atrocities. When my parents say that to me I’ll have a really hard time believing it.
I find it amazing that in most of (Liberal) Western Europe, Abortion is only allowed within the first Trimester (12 weeks).
There are the usual exceptions, life of the Mother, Rape, Incest, yet those same Laws would be fought tooth and nail if introduced in this Country.
Here is what Republicans should propose, Europe’s Abortion Laws and Mexico’s Immigration Laws should be mirrored here.
I've always wondered why it would take a woman over 12 weeks to decide to abort her child. Why? If you could not "handle" a pregnancy, wouldn't you know it immediately? And then as the baby is growing inside the womb, doesn't its humanity become more and more evident? After one third of the pregnancy is over and only two thirds to go, why wouldn't one even consider adoption at that point? By the way, forget the health of the mother rationale because that reason is never valid.
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