Tuesday, April 23, 2013

From Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center

Although the bombing of the Boston Marathon rightfully commanded much of the media's attention last week, the Big Three broadcast networks still found time for a host of superficial and inconsequential "news" stories while continuing to censor the horrific details of abortionist Kermit Gosnell's murder trial in Philadelphia.

Have the American people not made it clear that the Gosnell trial is a major, national story? With the exception of CBS This Morning's reporting last Monday, networks are still putting their personal pro-abortion politics ahead of the national interest and censoring this story. So what didthe media find so enthralling last week?
  • ABC (which hasn't covered Gosnell once ever) revealed the earth-shattering revelation that Breakfast at Tiffany's heroine Holly Golightly's original name was "Connie Gustafson"
  • Diane Sawyer spent 32 seconds on Superman's 75th birthday
  • NBC's Today reported why the Internet loves cats
  • Brian Williams took time report that octogenarian actor Dick Van Dyke gets headaches when he lies down
  • CBS This Morning found time to show footage of Toronto's mayor bumping into a TV camera, but didn't bother to update their Gosnell reporting
Their silence is deafening. The horror in Boston is worthy of extensive, in-depth coverage, but so is the maiming, mutilation and murder allegedly committed by Gosnell. The broadcast networks are censoring it because they want to protect abortion at all costs. Gosnell might as well have put his alleged victims in ovens. They just don't care.

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