Think About The Difference In Treatment

Today marked the annual March For Life in Washington and cities across the country.  Here's a picture of a portion of the crowd gathered in DC. 

 

Estimates of the number of people present in DC are above 250,000.  When the other marches across the nation are included, the estimated number of participants is over a million people.

 

Given the huge nature of the event, one would think that the mainstream media would cover it, but that would be incorrect.  I checked CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN sites and the only mention of the March for Life was a sentence near the end of an article on ABC News discussing things happening today in Washington.  None of these news organizations discussed what the March for Life is, what it supports or the huge outpouring of support it engendered. 

 

Now consider the Women's March that is supposed to happen over the weekend.  There are at least eleven articles today on the sites mentioned above covering that event.  Some of the coverage is about the anti-Semitic nature of the leaders of the Women's March, but about two-thirds of the coverage is a discussion of the objectives of the Women's March and its big success in turning out people.  Of course, we will have to wait and see if the Women's March gets anywhere close to the turnout that the March for Life attained.

 

I don't mind that the mainstream media slants coverage in favor of pro-abortion events.  I do, however, think it is truly reprehensible that the mainstream media just ignores news stories if they don't fit the narrative.  After all, it's hard to portray pro-life groups as tiny collection of crackpots when you have to report that a million people turned out to march in support of that position.  The media's answer is just to deny reality.