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New York Times Ignores Massive Pro-Life March for Fifth Year in a Row

By Clay Waters | January 24, 2012 | 11:22

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For the fifth year in a row, there was no story in the Times print edition on the annual March for Life against abortion in Washington, D.C., which every year draws massive crowds in unpromising weather on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion.

Reporter Jada Smith’s Monday morning round-up post on the paper’s “Caucus” blog revealed just how clueless the Times was. Under the subhead "Happenings in Washington," the Times highlighted these profound Monday events:

• The Boston Bruins, the N.H.L. Stanley Cup champions, will be honored by President Obama at the White House.

• There will be a ceremony in State Department’s Treaty Room with Han Duk-soo, South Korea’s ambassador to the United States, to sign a bilateral Environmental Cooperation Agreement.

Nothing about thousands of people marching down Constitution Avenue against abortion.

Even the two references made about the march at nytimes.com were accidental, done to explain where Sen. Rand Paul was headed when he was stopped at airport security by TSA in Nashville, leading editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal to incoherently argue: “Mr. Paul was on his way to a ‘March for Life’ anti-abortion rally. I can’t wrap my mind around the blatant contradiction here. A breezy airport security experience is essential to our liberty, but a woman’s right to choose isn’t?”

As Times Watch reported last January, the 2011 print edition of the Times did not feature an actual news story of the thousands who marched in frigid weather, just two photos with the caption “Abortion Opponents Rally On the National Mall,” above a three-sentence description that led to a link to photographs online. That was actually a vast improvement; the Times in print absolutely ignored the March for Life in 2010, 2009, and 2008 (a 300-word story marked the 2007 March for Life on January 23 of that year).

The Times is far more eager to publicize protests in support of liberal causes, no matter how puny. When four protesters marched in support of the doomed Dream Act to grant amnesty to illegal immigrant students, the Times marked the occasion with a 780-word story.

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Frankly, I'm surprised

Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:27am.

they didn't lead with the headline "Tea Party Riot Assaults Freedom".

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

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As it will for another five years.

Submitted by KyWriter on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:30am.

Oh wait a minute: at the rate the NYT is losing readership, it probably won't be around five years from now to even publish a paper.

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Missed opportunity

Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:31am.

I'm surprised they didn't take the opportunity to crow about how Senator Rand Paul was forced to miss coming to the event he was supposed to give a speech for due to the TSA detaining him.

You'd think they'd be all happy and giddy about that.

-Jon

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Even in the story about Rand

Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:23pm.

Even in the story about Rand Paul being detained, they said he was going to D.C. for a Senate vote, not to speak at the rally.
They really think if they don't report it, it never happened.

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I live in Texas....

Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:37am.

One day they threw the NY Times on my lawn... I threw it back...haven't seen another one since!

Obama (aka Svengali): Svengali "would either fawn or bully and could be grossly impertinent. He had a kind of cynical humour that was more offensive than amusing and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.
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Allen West yesterday at Pro-Life Rally

Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:40am.

Oh how I hope he is our VP choice. 

(Although there is some talk here in Florida of "Draft Allen" to run against Bill Nelson in the Senate)

Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 109 (and Counting)

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Stark difference

Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:27pm.

Allen West says "God bless you all!" to those marching for life.

"Devout Catholic" Nancy Pelosi is pro-abortion and says "God bless them!" referring to the OWS mob.

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They weren't just ignoring

Submitted by GrannyGrump42 on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:58am.

They weren't just ignoring March for Life. They were ignoring sister events all over the country. If half a dozen abortion advocates were to show up once a year to commemorate ANYTHING, it'd be the lead story on every network and in every paper, and they'd play up the faithfulness of the protesters in standing up for women's rights, yada yada yada.

March for Life and its sister events mark the largest ongoing protest of any kind, anywhere, any time in history. Which, I'm sure, is 99% of why they refuse to cover it.

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:12pm.

Jeez--you'd almost think the Times had some kind of a bias in favor of abortion.....

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