Would it surprise you in the least to find out that the series of Planned Parenthood videos issued by a “pro-life” group, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) – 6 so far, with more to come – have been almost completely buried by mainstream media?
What do I mean “almost completely buried”? In answer, I urge you to read Katie Yoder\’s piece at newsbusters.org, where she gives actual amounts of time ABC, NBC and CBS have spent reporting on this story, compared to other whistleblower-video stories they find more appealing – or maybe more palatable to their own ingoing views.
Here is just the first part – and there is a ton more. See if it squares with your idea of professional news reporting:
ABC, NBC and CBS are doing their best keep the public from seeing abortion for what it really is: the ripping apart of little baby bodies.
Since the release of the first Center for Medical Progress (CMP) video July 14 exposing Planned Parenthood\’s harvesting of aborted baby parts, the three broadcast networks have spent only 1 minute and 13 seconds playing CMP video footage with audio. That\’s 1 minute, 13 seconds out of 243 hours and 30 minutes of morning and evening news shows.
Of that 1 minute and 13 seconds:
Controversial video played: 0 seconds
Controversial imagery shown: 0 seconds
Controversial comments said: 1 minute, 5 seconds
The news shows not once played even blurred or pixilated footage of babies\’ hands and legs picked apart in a dish – footage prominently shown in the fifth video.
Let me do a little math for you. 243 hours is 14,580 minutes – plus 30 is 14,610 minutes of morning and evening news shows…..during which these videos generated 1 minute and 13 seconds, none of it showing any kind of visual – either video or still – of what was going on in those Planned Parenthood locations.
That, readers, is the definition of “almost completely buried”.
“But wait”, you might say. “Just because you think this is news doesn\’t make it so. Maybe the networks are not reporting about the CMP videos because they realize no one wants to see or hear about them”.
For anyone who takes this position, here are links to the first four videos on youtube.com, and how many views each has generated:
Intact Fetuses “Just a Matter of Line Items” for Planned Parenthood TX Mega-Center – Duration: 15:45. by The Center for Medical Progress 1 week ago 827,432 views
- Planned Parenthood Uses Partial-Birth Abortions to Sell Baby Parts – Duration: 8:52.by The Center for Medical Progress 4 weeks ago 2,849,951 views
Does that answer the question of whether people want to see these videos? I thought so.
And how many more would have viewed the videos if they knew about them – if mainstream media were not moving heaven and earth to suppress any news that they even exist?
Keep \’em ignorant and you own \’em. And so it is with the Planned Parenthood videos – courtesy of our wonderful “neutral” media.
