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Title: Can You Imagine the Coverage If It Were Dogs?
Source: www.redstate.com
URL Source: http://www.redstate.com/2013/04/12/ ... -the-coverage-if-it-were-dogs/
Published: Apr 12, 2013
Author: Erick Erickson
Post Date: 2013-04-12 06:24:46 by CZ82
Keywords: None
Views: 7253
Comments: 9

Can You Imagine the Coverage If It Were Dogs?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 12th, 2013 at 04:30 AM

“Had Kermit Gosnell killed dogs, HLN would be giving it wall to wall coverage as they do all sorts of sensational trials. Nancy Grace would be in full outrage mode every night.”

Last night on twitter, Dave Weigel of Slate noted he was just hearing from twitterers about the gruesome trial of Kermit Gosnell. Those who care about the story owe a tremendous debt to Kirsten Powers taking to the pages of USA Today to write about it.

It is fascinating how much of a bubble the media lives in with that bubble so DC-NYC centric. It is again one of the problems for news organizations like CNN as it tries to rebuild. With the exception of Fox News, the American news networks focus on the things people along the coast are interested in and not what people along the American river valleys are talking about.

In churches, local restaurants, and small town hair salons a lot of people across the country are talking about the terrible trial of Kermit Gosnell in Pennsylvania. It’s just not the people who interact with those who produce the news in New York City.

In fairness to CNN, unlike many other mainstream media outlets, it covered the Gosnell arrest back in 2011, but moved on. Only Fox, which is the number one news network largely because it actually cares what people outside the DC-NYC bubble care about, has stayed with the story.

Gosnell is now on trial two years after his arrest. The stories coming from the trial via the few outlets willing to pay attention are horrific and gruesome. But what’s more, similar stories are trickling out from other abortion clinics. The uncommon barbarism of Kermit Gosnell’s clinic turns out to be more common than most might imagine.

But they won’t imagine it. Like with Dave Weigel from Slate, most reporters have never paid attention to the trial or the horrors of many abortion clinics. Reporters lean left, are sympathetic to abortion, and view the right’s demands for coverage unsympathetically because of the reporters’ biases.

Within the media coverage Gosnell is either a story they covered in 2011 or something they won’t cover at all. If they cover it now, they do so in passing so they can say they covered it. But they won’t devote the resources to it as they would if Gosnell had killed dogs. He only killed babies.

In Kirsten Powers column she noted

A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the Gosnell trial in the last three months. The exception is when Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan hijacked a segment on Meet the Press meant to foment outrage over an anti-abortion rights law in some backward red state.

The Washington Post has not published original reporting on this during the trial and The New York Times saw fit to run one original story on A-17 on the trial’s first day. They’ve been silent ever since, despite headline-worthy testimony.

Liberals, and even reporters who try to be fair minded, often complain that conservative decided to leave and go do their own media thing with Fox, talk radio, etc. Well, this is an example of why conservatives had to do that. Otherwise many stories many Americans care about would never be told.

Had Kermit Gosnell killed dogs, HLN would be giving it wall to wall coverage as they do all sorts of sensational trials. Nancy Grace would be in full outrage mode every night through the course of the trial. It’s sad that a man who engaged in horrific acts of barbarism will never be as known to the public as Casey Anthony or George Zimmerman because Gosnell’s crime is viewed as less than a crime by the vast majority of the producers of American news.

The rest of the story...

www.usatoday.com/story/op...ic-horror-column/2072577/

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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)

Or whales.

Or mountain Lions.

Or eagles/hawks.

Or bees.

Humans disappear, the World flourishes.

100 years.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2013-04-12   10:34:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

Or whales.

Or mountain Lions.

Or eagles/hawks.

Or bees.

Humans disappear, the World flourishes.

Your people kill humans.

So if all the liberals suicided themselves the world would flourish?

I like that idea.

Every liberal needs an appointment with Kevorkian.

You first.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-04-12   11:13:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)

Your people kill humans.

I didn't do Deir Yassin.

I didn't steal anyone's land.

I didn't invade the Afghans/Iraq.

I didn't authorize torture.

Ronnie and Maggie sitting in a tree....K I S S I N G.....;}

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UK

Thatcher stands by Pinochet

Baroness Thatcher thanked Pinochet for his help in the Falklands

Ding Song the witch is dead....

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MUWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

mcgowanjm  posted on  2013-04-12   11:36:08 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)

Every liberal needs an appointment with Kevorkian.

The reason they put the kabosh on Kevorkian was because they finally figured out he was helping to eliminate their voter base... I'm glad they haven't figured out abortion is doing the same thing, it's the only reason we still have a country left...

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

CZ82  posted on  2013-04-12   17:26:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm (#3)

Ding Song the witch is dead....

Stoned again?

When was the last time your sorry ass had a job?

Did you ever have a job, or have you been in a drug induced haze since the summer of love?


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-04-12   18:43:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: CZ82 (#0)

If it had been cats, the mob would be mobbing and the perpetrators would be perking down the road. It isn't safe to mess with cats.

Don  posted on  2013-04-13   1:29:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: jwpegler (#5) (Edited)

Ding Song the witch is dead....

Note the 'S' and 'D' keys location......

And about the Ad hominem:

So your sorry ass neither Smokes, Drinks, or Cusses.....;}

No one can trust you then.....8D Like Corzine,

You believe in the Demons from Dumbass who run this sorry planet.

While you do ZERO drugs of any kind.

You, sir, are a fucking liar.....;}

Yeah, ME and the OTHER 101, 000, 000 Americans..... do not have a job.....too bad for you that I don't need one, eh? RFLMFAO

Where's MY Fuckin' Bailout!!!!!!

mcgowanjm  posted on  2013-04-14   9:49:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: jwpegler (#5)

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.....

mcgowanjm  posted on  2013-04-15   8:42:43 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.....


It's tax season. This has become one of my favorite quotes over the last few years: Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

jwpegler  posted on  2013-04-15   12:57:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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