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Congressman Chris Smith Condemns Media Blackout Of Gosnell Trial

By Matt Rooney, SaveJersey.com

Concluding_debateNon-conservatives sometimes get a little frustrated with conservatives for complaining about “media bias.” To be fair, I do think there’s something to be said for the fact that simply whining about how crappy the press can be isn’t an effective electoral strategy. Plenty of radio hosts make a living that way but it’s not helpful.

That doesn’t mean media bias isn’t a very real problem, and some instances of bias, however, are especially egregious. The complete mainstream media blackout surrounding the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial across the Delaware River is one such instance, Save Jerseyans. The allegations in that trial — “43 criminal counts, including eight counts of murder” — are nightmarishly grizzly and reveal a completely non-sanitized account of abortion that many willfully-blind Americans need to see.

But the media has remained deafeningly silent, leading even a few prominent liberal pundits like Kirstin Powers opine that the trial ”should be front page news.”

What Kirstin is apparently waking up to is the reality of a hyper-ideological press corps that lives by the doctrine of selective outrage. Reporting the news is a secondary objective for these people. Affecting their desired vision of “change” in society always takes primacy. In this case, abortion doesn’t offend them (most even see it as a sacred natural right). Private gun ownership does offend them (in case you hadn’t heard!). As a result, you can expect to see story after story lamenting isolated, statistically rare gun accidents but nothing in print about the alleged mass murder of infants.

Again, the media’s goal here isn’t to inform you. They’re trying to shape you.

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Posted: April 13th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Abortion, Chris Smith, Kermit Gosnell, Media | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments »

2 Comments on “Congressman Chris Smith Condemns Media Blackout Of Gosnell Trial”

  1. Susan Barry said at 1:23 pm on April 13th, 2013:

    Thank-YOU Congressman Chris Smith for your continuos work, time, and fight to save so many innocent babies.

    We need to elect more Senators and Congress people like yourself on the state and federal level to keep to save these babies.

  2. PopeChris said at 9:25 pm on April 22nd, 2013:

    Nice to see that Smith is spending his time tilting at windmills rather than digging in to solve 0ur local problems- jobs, college costs,
    Sandy damage..

    Why does this man have so much free time to display his attributes as a good Catholic, but a bad Congressman?