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Media Bias

February 1st, 2007 by Administrator

I was discussing  anti-Christian/Catholic media bias with a friend.
I relaized for the first time – firsthand – media bias, when it comes to Christian/Catholic news reporting. It was years ago at the pro-life rally  in the Ocala Town Square, Flroida. It was probably my first year attending this event. The  pro-life people had about 300 marchers, they were  conservative  in their approach, prayerful…
There were also about  12 pro-aborts. They were noisy, trying to disrupt the  rally speakers. When all the pro-life people marched around  the  square at the end, praying and holding signs, the pro-aborts sat on steps  near one corner and  cursed and spit at people. I saw all this  first hand, not ‘word of mouth’.
That night I watched the  news, I was still naive in those days and I actually  watched news  programs but this was an ‘eye opener’ on the veracity of news reporting.
Channel 2 Ocala, the station is right across the street from  the square, showed  about 12 pro-lifers and 12 pro-aborts. They  made it look like equal numbers  showed up for both sides and they  showed the pro-life people shouting at  something one of the speakers  said and at the same time showed the pro-aborts  talking and standing  quietly.
They made it look like there were equal numbers  of people on both sides and  that the pro-lifers were the rowdy ones!


Not  a word on the pro-aborts spitting and cursing people!


That wasn’t  the beginning of my disenchantment with the news media but it was  a ‘BIG STEP’ so to speak!
I figured that if I  can’t trust the news media on something I know for sure, then  why  should I believe anything they say at all? Mt 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.”

 

 The following  is an  article from LIFENEWS.COM  http://www.lifenews.com/, on the most recent ”March  for Life” in  Washington D.C.. The Post is anti-Christian/Catholic.


“The story was illustrated by color photos, but  in a  far too common tactic, the Post balanced a picture of four  pro-life  demonstrators … against a photo of four or five feminists,”  he explained. “One  side turns out tens of thousands, and the other  turned out tens.”
http://www.lifenews.com/nat2896.html

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