It's the same kind of media malfeasance we've seen for years. The liberal media deliberately ignore major news stories that would hurt those people, institutions or ideas they love. The MSM has thus gone beyond "advocacy journalism" to "extinguishing journalism." It is a most dishonorable and dangerous thing.The evidence of the MSM's obfuscation can be seen it those huge news stories omitted every day by the networks and the "major" newspapers and magazines. Brent Bozell shows us just one of the latest; namely, how reporters and editors are refusing to deal with the ever-increasing evidence of Planned Parenthood's sordid crimes.
Those censorious liberals who truly hate the very existence of the Fox News Channel denounce it for being a political organization, not truly a news network. Behind that line is decades of liberals being able to strangle, smother, and spike news stories they didn’t like. Liberals defined what “news” was, and what it wasn’t. They’re still at it today.
Take the pro-life group Live Action. On February 1, they released shocking videos showing what they found when they brought hidden cameras into Planned Parenthood clinics, with a man and woman posing as pimp and prostitute. An office manager was taped telling the “pimp” how to evade the law, such as lying about prostitutes' ages if they were children 14 or under. Any older and the clinic would be obligated to report to the authorities. “We want as little information as possible,” she said conspiratorially.
That matches very nicely with the mindsets of ABC, CBS, and NBC, which absolutely refused to acknowledge the existence of this damning video. (Fox News did cover it, and so did CNN.)
The same gaggle of broadcast TV watchdogs which has mustered endless outrage over the notion that the Catholic Church would fail to alert authorities about sexual abuse of minors is utterly uninterested in the sexual abuse of minors when someone more pleasing to secular progressives – like that abortion factory Planned Parenthood -- is caught on camera.
Live Action has been exposing Planned Parenthood since 2007. You would think that by 2011, their clinic personnel would be more careful. It is just the opposite. Their disinterest toward statutory rape and child sexual abuse is shocking...
(The rest of Bozell's column is here. Thanks to Pat Eberly for the tip.)
