May 25 2011
ABC News shills for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, calls it news
ABC News has put up basic pro-abortion propaganda masquerading as news.
Mixing facts and interpretation, without differentiating the two, the link above has a “news” story accompanied by a video (with the ABC News logo!) that was actually produced by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a strongly pro-abortion advocacy organization. The video is not even thinly disguised; it is straight-up pro-abortion propaganda. For it to be presented with the ABC News logo, in a “news” story purporting to report demographic changes in who gets abortions and why, is the clearest possible evidence of the pro-abortion slant of the major media, a part of their over-all leftist tilt.
It’s also evidence of the inability of the major media to keep news and opinion/perspective separate, despite the major media’s protestations that even though most of its members are left, they can still be objective in reporting the news.
Ask yourself this: would ABC News put up a video produced by, say, Focus on the Family, reporting the exact same facts as the Guttmacher video, but offering a different interpretation of causes and effects, and a different prescription for what women really need? And would it put up such a video as the sole interpretation of the demographic “facts”?
The idea is risible, of course.
Of course, ABC News didn’t even bother to ASK any pro-life organization for a competing interpretation to the Guttmacher propaganda piece. Or, if ABC News did ask, it certainly didn’t report it.
Instead, the Alan Guttmacher Institute (given a bully pulpit by ABC News) would have us believe the canard that “poverty causes abortion” and that more federal social spending/entitlements would reduce abortion (Not so, but even if it was true, so what? It’s not like abortion is a BAD thing to the pro-aborts of the world, right?).
In another post, I’ll discuss some interpretations of the demographic aspects of abortion that ABC News didn’t bother to solicit from any pro-life organization.
For now, just know this: you can’t trust the reporting of the major media on abortion. Period.
Or on much else, either.
