Not even in the wake of the sickening Planned Parenthood videos will the broadcast networks dare to criticize Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
During their news shows, ABC, NBC and CBS ignored a press conference against Margaret Sanger held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. During the event, black pastors and other pro-life leaders demanded the removal of a Margaret Sanger bust – a bust they called “revisionist propaganda” – from a Struggle for Justice exhibit inside the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
Likewise, the networks censored tens of thousands of Americans protesting Planned Parenthood last weekend.
Organized by STAND and ForAmerica, the press conference concluded when speakers met with the art gallery’s head of communications, Bethany Bentley, and handed her their petition with more than 14,000 signatures against the bust.
Previously, these ministers delivered a letter to the gallery and were rebuffed for that request.
While the three broadcast networks didn’t spend a second on the story, others in the media did.
During Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier on August 27, chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream covered the “disagreement over the placement of a bust of one of Planned Parenthood’s founders.”
Her report included a clip from Bishop E.W. Jackson of STAND at the press conference calling Sanger a “racist” and “genocidal figure.”
“If you are honoring Margaret Sanger,” he challenged, “you are joining together with her in her racist ideology.”
Disclaimer: ForAmerica’s Brent Bozell also serves as founder and president of the Media Research Center.
