This morning,
the
Los Angeles Times carried a front-page story about a controversial political
battle that was fueled by an undercover video. But it wasn't the undercover
video of a Planned Parenthood senior official discussing how Planned Parenthood
is involved in
harvesting and selling baby organs. Instead, the editors at the
Times gave 1,028 words and premium front page status to the coverage of some
middle-aged men
chasing other away from their favorite surfing spot.
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Even after two full days of triggering an avalanche social media outrage which
prompted both federal and state officials to begin investigating the abortion
organization, coverage of Planned Parenthood's hideous practices is nowhere to
be found in the Times.
Of course the LAT is not the only media outlet that
purports itself to be a news organization but is censoring this story.
Mollie Hemingway over at the Federalist has been monitoring media outlets for
years on their selective bias against stories that bring the horror of abortion
to light. Today, she wrote about
the paltry media coverage of the Planned Parenthood scandal from most of the
major media organizations. In her article, she shows just how slow these outlets
were to cover the story, how few of them gave any mention to it at all, and how
most who did, did so in order to help the PR push of Planned Parenthood, even to
the point of copying their talking points verbatim!
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Watchdog of Justice, Who Keeps Their Eye on You?
None of this was unexpected.
Two years ago, the Kermit Gosnell case
checked off absolutely every requirement a news outlet would look for to
warrant full coverage and smashing ratings, yet is was conspicuously absent from
nearly all of them. Now, the harvesting of baby organs story is again being
censored. Why? Because the idea of dispassionately reporting the news isn't the
overriding value for those who claim to run news organizations anymore. It isn't
even ratings, although ratings matter. It's simply ideology. Ideology is king
and one cannot put forth a story that may break a scandal against something like
abortion.
To underscore the pint, just as the fetal organ story was
breaking, my friend Sean McDowell released a
short YouTube clip
where he tells of his almost interview on CNN. The organization called Sean
because they were looking for an opposing voice on the topic of transgenderism.
He recounts the producer asking him for his specific position on transgenderism.
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Sean replied, "My position is this is a complicated issue. We need to have
compassion, we need to follow the science, and we need to settle this issue
carefully." The producer them paused a moment, looked a Sean and said "You know,
you're much too compassionate. My director will get upset if I have you call
into this show!" upon finding out that CNN contacted the Southern Baptists to
try and find a person who would state on-air that transgenderism "is wrong,
sinful, and you're going to Hell!" McDowell refused to do so and so CNN turned
to someone from ChurchMilitant.com to be the radical voice the so-called
objective news show could carve apart like a sacrificial cow to make themselves
look balanced an sane. No one can call this objective reporting and still be
considered sane.
It's been obvious for years that "reality" television is
nothing of the kind. They are formulated, staged, scripted, and edited to get
the biggest reaction out of the audience possible. The newsroom is the next
reality television. They are simply no longer trustworthy. It's no surprise
that Pew Research
just reported more people are getting their news from Facebook and Twitter
than watching it on television or reading a newspaper or magazine.
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Mainstream television and print journalism has
died. Edmund Burke's Fourth Estate no longer exists; we only see the estate sale
with ideologues pawing through its previously grand hallways and closets,
selling both its duty and its good name for ten cents on the dollar.
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