Fox's 'Special Report' Passes Along MRC Finding: OWS-Loving Networks Again Skipped 'March for Life'
By Tim Graham | January 27, 2012 | 22:41
On the "Grapevine" section of Friday night's Special Report, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported the MRC's findings on how the networks covered this year's "March for Life" -- or, to be more precise, how they skipped it. Once again, ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nothing on the thousands and thousands of pro-life protesters marching to the Supreme Court on the 39th anniversary of the high court legalizing abortion.
"If you were listening to the Big Three broadcast networks, you wouldn’t have heard a peep about the event," said Baier. "You would have been in the dark, too, if you were reading the print version of The New York Times. Not one word." Fox asked me for a quote which then appeared on screen: (Video below)
They can't seem to locate tens of thousands of people clogging the streets of Washington to protest abortion on demand. These tens of thousands bravely keep coming to the capital in all kinds of bad weather every January, fully aware that the supposedly objective national media will pretend they don't exist.
This is quite a contrast to how ABC, CBS, and NBC offered a staggering 81 news stories in October to left-wing Occupy Wall Street activists. In fact, the Occupy protests are still getting mentions, even in the weekend leading up the Monday protest. There was Saturday’s Good Morning America on ABC:
RON CLAIBORNE, anchor: And Occupy San Francisco protests turned violent last night. Windows were smashed at a car dealership. And a group of protesters took over an abandoned hotel. At least 18 people arrested on a day that started with peaceful protests and people chaining themselves to bank buildings.
NBC offered this story on Friday’s Today before the Monday march:
NATALIE MORALES, anchor: Protesters say they will occupy the areas around federal courthouses in more than 100 cities today. They're marking the second anniversary of a ruling that removed most limits on spending by corporations and unions in federal elections.
On NBC's Saturday Today, we did get this abortion mention from reporter Michael Isikoff, digging up unfavorable information on Rick Santorum’s wife: "But the very next day, Karen Santorum was facing scrutiny herself. Newsweek reported that before she married Santorum, she had a six-year live-in relationship with a Pittsburgh abortion doctor 40 years her senior."
On Monday, Fox's "Special Report" sent Shannon Bream to provide a more-than-two-minute report on the March, complete with quotes from House Speaker John Boehner on one side and NARAL Pro-Choice America chief Nancy Keenan on the other.
USA Today and the Los Angeles Times joined the New York Times in failing to report on the March.
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Comments
The Big 3
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:34am.
are dying on a daily basis. In my city, news stands/boxes are folding. They are begging for subscibers. Prime time tv is mostly Fox and many listen to Rush during the day. Coffee shops have Rush on the air. Most are sick of the lies,bias and of no interest news in the "paper" and on tv.
Rush who?
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 2:24am.
♥♥ :-) ♥♥
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It's Their Mindset
Submitted by tvhall on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:53am.
Newsrooms are filled with brainwashed liberals who only publish the stories that fit their world view. When they finally get their way suprise suprise the will be in the gulag with the rest of us!
⇒ True humanity
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:27am.
True humanity is not found in standing up for the rights of those tiny humans whose lives are weighed against the inconvenience of their existence.
No, true humanity is found in the broad strokes of a buttocks smearing its message onto a convenient symbol of authority.
Kudos Tim. Thankfully, MRC has a partner in Fox News and
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:29am.
Fox Business to help disseminate the bias in the Leftist media.
But don't forget...
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 6:13pm.
that Fox News is just right-wing propaganda, and the NYT is the gold-standard of objectivity. That's what most of my relatives believe, anyway. I try to tell them that the NYT et al don't have to lie to distort the truth - all they have to do is be selective about what they report, and their incurious fans will have all their beliefs confirmed. The NYT should be called "The Liberal Dream Factory".