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April 2013

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

April 16, 2013

Vote! Which is the worst Gosnell lede?

A few positive thoughts before we look at coverage of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial....

April 15, 2013

WPost demonstrates how not to respond to Gosnell critiques, again

It's like drinking water from a fire hose. That's what processing all of the information...

April 14, 2013

Pod People: Media wake up to Gosnell failures

GetReligion's critique of media coverage of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial has received quite a...

April 13, 2013

Abortion blindness in the New York Times

Three cheers for my Get Religion colleague Mollie Hemingway! She has done a fantastic job...

April 12, 2013

Politico and Atlantic.com’s turn to explain Gosnell blackout

Earlier I shared what happened when I asked an AP reporter and a Washington Post...

April 12, 2013

WPost reporter explains her personal Gosnell blackout

I've been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many...

April 11, 2013

We need answers on Gosnell coverage

We've had a couple posts on the curious downplaying by the national media of the...

April 10, 2013

Mainstream press on Gosnell: adjust the framing

Yes, there's more. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is on trial in Philadelphia for killing a female...

April 09, 2013

Abortion, rights, viewpoint discrimination and Johns Hopkins

One of the most awkward and painful truths in American higher education is that it...

April 08, 2013

Should media cover — or cover up — abortion trial?

I would love to critique the coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

The new ‘abortion’: cutting newborns’ spinal cords

Two years ago, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested for the murders of eight people at...

March 01, 2013

Is Politico as partisan as The Weekly Standard?

Today is Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton's last day. You can read his memo to...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

What do you mean ‘we’ Kemosabe?

This is a small item, but I found it interesting none-the-less. I wonder what you...

February 21, 2013

Mainstream media defense of abortion never rests

I once served on a jury that convicted a man of conspiracy to commit mail...

February 15, 2013

Water-sipping and pro-life activism. A tale of media coverage.

Last month, we covered the perennial problem of why the March for Life gets the...

February 04, 2013

Running the White House spin on HHS regulations

If news is ever going to break on your beat, it will break on Friday...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

We don’t have a free press. Discuss.

With the headline "Stupid Press, Stupid People: Non-Reporting the March for Life," you know Anthony...

January 30, 2013

How PR attempt against Life Marchers played out at MSNBC

Earlier this week, I looked at how a PR push from a progressive group called...

January 29, 2013

Got news? When is a desecrated memorial a big story?

If you have been reading this blog much in the past week (greeting to the...

January 28, 2013

Foot-long subs vs. March For Life

The Associated Press has a Twitter feed with nearly 1.6 million followers. Those followers received...

January 24, 2013

Media coverage of Roe at 40

One could write several volumes under this headline, but we'll just look at a few...

January 23, 2013

The ghost of abortion in adoption stories

Like many Americans, I've been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San...

January 09, 2013

NYT publishes ‘news story’ on pregnancy centers

The New York Times, a daily publication that claims to "Publish All the News That's...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

November 16, 2012

On media malpractice and Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death

Back in March I wrote in "How To Cover A Hate Crime" about my obsession...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women

Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote...

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 19, 2012

Capital punishment, abortion and a Catholic politician

The Washington Post's front page today featured a long profile focused on the faith and...