No press coverage for the March For Life…
So what’s new?
Many, many people have complained about the lack of press coverage for the annual March For Life in Washington, D.C., which took place last week in opposition to our country’s abortion laws. It happens every year - the press virtually ignore the event. Most political leaders ignore the event as well, and although our pro-life President never shows up, he makes a safe, diplomatic, phoned-in speech of support.
This year the lack of press coverage has been blamed (by some) on the death of a movie actor. Pro-life supporters believe the secular press used coverage of Heath Ledger’s death to ignore what they usually ignore every year anyway - the March For Life.
“It also goes without saying that the little tin gods in the media did their level best to ignore and obfuscate this colossal event. When the homosexual propaganda film star, Heath Ledger, died of a drug overdose on two nights before the March, that provided the hedonistic media the perfect reason to wail and gnash their teeth for a prolonged period of time about their immoral agenda and derail coverage of the life event.” - Fr. Euteneuer
I have the deepest respect and admiration for Fr. Euteneuer, and I certainly appreciate the frustration with the press in his statement. I also have no doubt there is media bias against the pro-life movement - we witness it every year. Having said that, how do we explain the fact that media in our country also ignores just about every other humanitarian news story that doesn’t have a connection to celebrity news, economic fears, climate change, or the political race for president?
What network news agency in this country is actively reporting upon the terror the people of Kenya are currently enduring? Or the murder of priests and nuns so often repeated throughout African and Muslim countries? Although it is old news, what do we ever hear of the ongoing genocide in Sudan? Or the continual sufferings of peoples just about anyplace you look in Africa? While NO ONE in this country ever seems willing to report on the progrom of extermination against the Palestinian people by Israel?
So what’s up with that?
[Photo: Kenya in flames.]
January 29th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I’ve been doing historical research in American newspapers for decades and if there’s one thing that stands out it’s the fact that the American press has NEVER shown much interest in what’s going on in the rest of the world. If it’s going on elsewhere, a situation has to become a cause celebre for them to cover it. If anything, they’re better now than they were fifty years ago and were better then that they were a hundred years ago. In general, the press follows the lead of certain groups of opinion makers ( Now it’s the NY/LA glitterati ) because the American public has always been unconcerned, unless it’s fashionable to make a show of concern.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Obama is half Kenyan so the press isn’t going to harp on what’s up there. Plus, after the Somalia disaster and Rwanda Amerians don’t want to get involved in Africa except to air drop food.
January 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
” … Obama is half Kenyan so the press isn’t going to harp on what’s up there …” dymphna
Ironic isn’t … you would think it would be one good reason to speak up.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Very well stated.
Pro-life anything is going to get no-news unless an abortion clinic goes up in flames. In which case we are labeled terrorists or extremists.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is what determines the news these days, and I find the p.c. condition of so many in the media bilious and perfidious.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:26 am
Only news that forwards the elitists’ important agendas get reported upon. Everything else is ingored, PARTICULARLY if it illustrates the hipocracy of those agendas.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Heath who?
That was my question when someone told me about that actor’s death. never saw the movie he was in about those lonesome cowboys. But clearly the ongoing drama about Britney Spears, whose songs I have never heard, is filling every news show I hear on the satellite radio (I don’t own a television).
But these are idols who have eyes but do not see, ears that do not hear and those who adore them will become like them.
In exitu Aegypti….