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- Subj: Media Bias
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- Maybe you've noticed that despite a million and a half abortions per year
- in the U.S., there's no such thing as an "abortionist" in the news reports.
- The preferred label is "abortion provider."
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- The pro-abortion -- oops, "pro-choice" -- bias in the media is so blatant
- that it has finally become a scandal among journalists who uphold the
- traditional standard of impartial coverage. First Richard Harwood, the
- Washington Post's ombudsman, blasted his paper's "shabby" coverage of the
- April 28 anti-abortion rally at the Washington Monument. Now David Shaw of
- the Los Angeles Times has done a huge, four-part study of media abortion
- coverage that finds such shabbiness is the rule in today's journalism.
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- Another study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs cites
- statistical evidence for the same conclusion. Ethan Bronner of the Boston
- Globe says: "I think that when abortion opponents complain about a bias in
- newsrooms against their cause, they're absolutely right." An unnamed network
- official adds: "The problem, pure and simple, is that the media's loaded with
- women who are strongly pro-choice." John Leo of U.S. News & World Report
- scores "the contempt, insularity, and obliviousness that lie behind the press
- failures on abortion."
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