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1/26/2017

Will Media Give Same Amount Of Positive Coverage To The Annual March For Life Tomorrow That They Did For Women’s March Last Weekend?

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:20 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Not if history is any indicator…

The annual March for Life will take place in Washington D.C. tomorrow. Typically the event is downplayed, or altogether ignored by the MSM. This in spite of the numbers historically being similar to those of last weekend’s Women’s March in D.C. But if it is reported on, expect attendance numbers to be given the short-shrift, the negative “anti-abortion” descriptor to be used repeatedly instead of the positive “pro-life” term, and on top of that, it’s guaranteed that none of the reporting will come with a media-expressed optimism and hopefulness about the pro-life movement at large. Yet whether reporters cover the march or not, for the marchers themselves, this year brings reason to cheer: President Trump just reinstated the Mexico City policy, effectively defunding the International Planned Parenthood Federation and cutting off $100 million they receive annually from the U.S. taxpayers.

With that,President Trump was interviewed by David Muir of ABC News yesterday, and in a portion of the interview, Muir, obviously hoping to put the president on the defensive, asked him about the Women’s March last weekend. In response, President Trump brought up the the March for Life. Now, while while I firmly believe the president needs to develop some discernment and self-control with regard to spouting off about the size of, well, anything, kudos to him for bringing up the issue when confronting Muir about the lopsided media coverage between previous March for Life events and last weekend’s Women’s March:

DAVID MUIR: Let me just ask you while we’re standing outside, could you hear the voices from the Women’s March here in Washington? We know more than a million people turned out, and you are their president too.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, I couldn’t hear them. The crowds were large, but you will have a large crowd on Friday, too, which is mostly pro-life people.

You’re going to have a lot of people coming on Friday. And I will say this, and I didn’t realize this. But I was told. You will have a very large crowd of people. I don’t know as large or larger. Some people said it will be larger. Pro-life people and they say the press doesn’t cover them.

DAVID MUIR: I don’t want to compare crowd sizes again. I – I—I…

PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, no, you should.

Was President Trump correctly informed about the lack of coverage for the previous March for Life events? Absolutely:

During their morning and evening news shows, the three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) covered the women’s march 129 times more than they did the 2016 March for Life last year.

ABC, CBS and NBC spent at least one hour, 15 minutes and 18 seconds on the women’s march. But for the 2016 March for Life, they devoted an embarrassing 35 seconds (22 seconds following the march, 13 before).

And note the excitement from the Big Three networks when reporting about the Women’s March:

By Jan. 19, all three networks had covered the women’s march, with NBC correspondent Stephanie Gosk predicting a “sea of pink” (a reference to women marchers planning to wear pink “pussy hats” to protest President Donald Trump) at the march during Nightly News.

Even up until Tuesday morning, CBS covered the march by playing clips of late-night hosts talking about the protest during This Morning’s “eye openers.”

On Jan. 23, following the march, CBS This Morning still touted the event, with co-anchor Norah O’Donnell commenting that “Organizers of the women’s marches are taking steps to transform the energy from the weekend protest into action.” Her colleague, Charlie Rose added, “Could it take – begin there and become something larger in terms of the empowerment of women in terms of the whole range of issues that are crucial for women and their place and their opportunity to participate in the world that we live in?”

That same day, during Evening News, CBS anchor Scott Pelley called the marches “extraordinary” and wanted to know, “So, what happens next?”

Echoing CBS, ABC anchor David Muir asked about the march during World News Tonight “Can they sustain the momentum turning those marches into a movement?”

Here is a breakdown of the coverage for previous March for Life rallies:

In 2015, only CBS mentioned the march, allotting just 15 seconds. That was only one second for every 13,000 people who put work, school and other obligations aside to travel from as far away as the West Coast. That was only one second for every 3.8 million babies aborted in the last four decades.

In 2014, the networks devoted 46 seconds to the hundreds of thousands marching in Washington, D.C. Yet, ABC, NBC and CBS spent six times that on the National Zoo’s new panda cub and four-and-a-half times that on the Climate March.

Since 2013, the networks have devoted just 100 seconds to the March for Life in following news shows – slightly more than they might have spent broadcasting a couple of burger ads.

Brutally killing a defenseless baby in the womb? Who cares. MY BODY, MYSELF!!

But, THE EARTH IS BURNING!? Now that’s a Big. Fucking. Deal.

As one young woman who is planning to march tomorrow, eloquently said:

I don’t think it’s fair that there is an option to kill somebody before they even have a chance to live.

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back)

–Dana

28 Responses to “Will Media Give Same Amount Of Positive Coverage To The Annual March For Life Tomorrow That They Did For Women’s March Last Weekend?”

  1. I pray that tomorrow’s march is so enormous, so powerful, and so blessed by God on behalf of the unborn, that Big Media will simply be rendered unable to not report on it, and are compelled to truthfully tell the simple story of a people determined to protect the innocent and the pure.

    Dana (023079)

  2. The historic and fully consistent efforts by the MSM to ignore and consign the Life marches to the disinformation hole of history is beyond all question. It was egregious. Comrades Stalin and Castro would heartily approve of their methodology.

    Having said that, the concurrent rallies throughout the country last weekend really were quite something and novel. The entirety of the protests fully merited major coverage.

    My guess is the MSM will do their darnedest to quote friendly sources within the Park Service who will claim, off the record, bogus and deflated numbers tomorrow. The MSM will also conflate the size of the march in DC with the numbers from across the country last weekend.

    It will be interesting if DJT’s people decide to do the opposite – inflate the “official” attendance numbers tomorrow. I bet they do.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  3. But of course Hillary would’ve reinstated the Mexico City policy and brought up the Right to Life March.

    Because they’re exactly the same.

    Right?

    Buehler?

    NJRob (43d957)

  4. R.I.P. Mike Connors, actor who played Mannix

    Icy (549bca)

  5. Muir has little morals. Selective-child is the premier human rights issue of the 20th and 21st centuries under the female chauvinist anthem: she chose. she conceived. she aborted.

    The rites and practices carried out in chambers and clinics are achieved in denial of evolution from conception. A sincerely held belief of life unworthy. A fantasy conceived in the twilight zone.

    Pro-Choicers are sensitive to criticisms of their faith. Fantasies, really; selective, opportunistic , and unprincipled. Abortion rites are a closely held tradition of twilighters pursing wealth, pleasure, leisure, and Democratic leverage.

    The tell-tale hearts beat ever louder.

    That said, let’s see if someone else can reconcile natural and personal imperatives with a religious/moral philosophy derived from principles that are internally, externally, and mutually consistent.

    nn (54ef8d)

  6. But but but, Obama had a bigger crowd than YOU!!
    But but but, The Pink Pussy Hat March had 34.3 million women, wymyn and trannies. Swear to Gaia!!
    But but but, You are the first President to have been elected by Russia and the NOT DEBUNKED Golden Showers MEME!!!
    But but but, Martin Luther King was forcibly removed from the Oval Office, because, as we tried to play LIBTARD GOTCHA, we saw or more accurately DIDN’T SEE, what we were looking to NOT SEE!!!!!

    Sorry dude, and dudettes, this is the NEVER TRUMP fail. It must SUCK to pretend to be Conservative, and go ALL IN for RODHAM. And lose.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  7. No

    Harkin (eda32e)

  8. Good ol’ GUS.

    Icy (7d9c05)

  9. Will Media Give Same Amount Of Positive Coverage To The Annual March For Life Tomorrow That They Did For Women’s March Last Weekend?

    Not if President Trump calls into CNN’s New Day and NBCs Today Show and says he believes more Americans eat white popcorn than yellow popcorn at the movies.

    They’ll devote endless hours and resources researching it to prove there isn’t a kernel of truth to his belief.

    “Raisinets!” – Headly Lamarr [Harvey Korman] ‘Blazing Saddles’ 1974

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  10. “That’s Headley…”

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  11. No, next question.

    They’ll be back to the same “dozens of marchers” that they used for the Tea Party. Assuming they mention it at all. Maybe if they burned down the WaPo….

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  12. “That’s Headley…”

    This would make Trump “President Le Petomane”

    “Work work work … hello boys, did you miss me?”

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  13. @12. You’re catching on, K. 😉

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  14. Maybe CNN will massively increase its coverage of the Pro Life march by publishing a 9 am photo.

    Davod (f3a711)

  15. I assume they will have a reporter there, because pence will speak, however as Kevin reminds with the big tea party rally in 2009, they will minimize it, or blot it out, like the huntress,s kill the bill rallynin 2910

    narciso (d1f714)

  16. The President and the VP are both supposed to speak at this March for Life, so coverage may actually be different this time. At least that’s what I heard on Fox at one point yesterday. Hope it’s true.

    David Crowley (08149d)

  17. Im sure the MSM wont endure until 2910, but if there’s one trustworthy crystal ball left out there its Narciso’s. Klingonian Palin might do it for a lot of us, so there’s that to look forward to. J/k and keep eyes on road!

    urbanleftbehind (3576eb)

  18. Her, you know what I mean, democrat good, republican doubleunplusgood, they’ve practically adopted carousel as policy

    narciso (d1f714)

  19. I don’t think it’s fair that there is an option to kill somebody before they even have a chance to live.

    That’s a bloody brilliant quote.

    Patrick Henry, the 2nd (e04f50)

  20. Greetings:

    So, is there an official history about when predicting and speculating became part of reporting ??? Joe Friday wants to know.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  21. The President and the VP are both supposed to speak at this March for Life

    Reagan never did.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  22. @Kevin M, DCSCA: Gentlemen! this bill will be a great leap forward in the treatment of the insane gambler.

    @Kevin M: Pence has been speaking at March for Life for years.

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  23. Ronald Reagan and the March for Life:

    The President and the VP are both supposed to speak at this March for Life

    Reagan never did.

    Reagan never attended in person but “In each of the four years of his second term (1985-88), Reagan addressed the marchers and activists at the March for Life via telephone broadcast on loudspeakers.”

    DRJ (15874d)

  24. i just wish the propaganda slut media would give as much positive coverage to the march for life as they gave to clock boy or miley cyrus

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  25. Answer: No, they did not

    MayBee (a7822d)

  26. Why We March

    —WeirdDave

    *Mumble mumble* years ago, a young woman found her life shattered. She had fallen for a man who turned out to be a cad.

    He left her alone and pregnant, to return to a wife and kids that she had known nothing about. Scared and humiliated, she traveled to Texas.

    There she gave birth to a son. The nurse handed her the baby, and then realized that this was an adoption case and took him away.

    Sobbing, she thought “He’s going to a better life. He’s going to people who will love and care for him, as I can’t”

    And I did.

    But she was wrong. She may not have been able to care for me, but I never for a moment believed that she didn’t love me.

    35 years later we met again, for the first time, and I told her that. And that’s why I have 2 moms.

    This is what #MarchForLife means to me.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  27. Greetings:

    Paging Dr. Gosnall. Paging Dr. Gosnall. Dr. Gosnell to the back room stat.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  28. Stiff had a good update on the Twitter, the left is in love with death , thanosphilia, except whennit comes to criminals and terorists

    narciso (d1f714)


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