The media has the power to control what we think and what we think about. Historically, the have overlooked a epic protest in Washington DC and missed a powerful story to share with the world. This year it was a record number protest.
Some 300,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. today [Jan 22] to mark the 37th anniversary of the U.S. supreme court decision that legalized abortion.
And a major headline in mainstream was hardly to be found. Yet, as Sheila Liaugminas reports, they can and are at their best when they report on humanitarian crises and loss of life.
I customized my computer homepage to be filled with news headlines from sources I’ve chosen as a cross-section of top world news, top national news, big media headlines, politics, law, media, culture….a look at all the top headlines of the moment on the biggest stories of the moment, hour and day. It constantly refreshes. I gave it until the end of the night on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, after learning from my own sources that 300,000 people came out this year impressively and boldly to stand up for the fundamental right to life. At last scan, there was not one headline out of dozens and dozens that referred to the March for Life.
Besides the above Zenit article, and the video available on EWTN, and the usual bloggers like Carl Olson at Ignatius Insight and First Things making the essay by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus available again for the occasion…
…..we wouldn’t have heard about it.
And yet, I noticed this piece on a Haitian relief rally.
“The official death toll from the 7.0-magnitude quake has risen to 110,000.
“The benefit concert took place in New York, Los Angeles, London and Haiti.
“More than 100 Hollywood and music stars took part.”
The unofficial but modest estimate on the death toll from Roe v. Wade is 50 million babies. The rallies to benefit the cause of life took place in Washington D.C, online in a ‘virtual march’ and in cities around the country in solidarity with the annual March. More than 300,000 citizens nationwide took part in Washington, more than 70,000 in the ‘virtual march’, and countless others all over the country and the world…..in Paris, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the UK, Ireland, Switzerland…..and you only heard about it on pro-life news outlets.
The media’s biases aren’t only revealed in what they say and how they say it, but in what they don’t say. This bias is very clear.
[...] to most in the pro-life movement. We’ve known for years that support is large and growing. The media has refused to give us the due coverage. Perhaps that tide will change, but even if it doesn’t the pro-life sites have it covered and [...]