Media pro-abortion bias is as evident as it is appalling

[Michie]

The mainstream media's pro-abortion bias is as evident as it is appalling, and further eroded the public's faith in what was once considered a trustworthy institution.

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Media Pro-Abortion Bias is as Evident as it is Appalling

 

[Davidnic]

And it really is a pro-abortion bias. For all the talk of choice it is a bias toward a human not being a human but their humanity subject to if another wants them. And a bias toward cloaking that view in language that makes it seem enlightened and acceptable.

 

[Fantine]

I understand that their position on abortion has eroded the faith of some, but I have been personally encouraged and inspired by their courage to uncover the truth and protect our nation despite efforts to suppress, lock-out, mislead, and even blackmail them.

I try to look at the press in a wholistic manner, not through one lens which blocks out all the positive things they do.

 

[Fantine]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally--is attacked by the National Catholic Register that NCR is unwittingly playing into the hands of potentially corrupt leaders and would-be dictators and risking bringing a potential reign of terror upon our heads.

I realize that the National Catholic Register publishes some good articles and is normally socially responsible, but this grave error in judgment can have disastrous consequences I don't believe they've fully thought through, but which a small majority of Americans are well aware of.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally--is attacked by the National Catholic Register that NCR is unwittingly playing into the hands of potentially corrupt leaders and would-be dictators and risking bringing a potential reign of terror upon our heads.

I realize that the National Catholic Register publishes some good articles and is normally socially responsible, but this grave error in judgment can have disastrous consequences I don't believe they've fully thought through, but which a small majority of Americans are well aware of.

I expect that you'll post your criticism of CNN and MSNBC soon...

Here's an example of destructive reporting by CNN which destroyed a man's life. He is suing, and has recently won a huge battle in court against them.

Hospital CEO Wins Major Court Victory After Accusing CNN of FAKE NEWS Reporting

Of course, I don't expect any other response than, "but Fox..."

 

[AvilaSurfer]

NCR (register) = centrist and usually accurate.
NCR (reporter) = way left.
Just for reference.

 

[MikeK]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally--is attacked by the National Catholic Register that NCR is unwittingly playing into the hands of potentially corrupt leaders and would-be dictators and risking bringing a potential reign of terror upon our heads.

I realize that the National Catholic Register publishes some good articles and is normally socially responsible, but this grave error in judgment can have disastrous consequences I don't believe they've fully thought through, but which a small majority of Americans are well aware of.

Huh?

Why not vocally demand that "the media" not distort the objective truths of this issue? It is perfectly reasonable to expect that they present both sides of this polarizing debate accurately and fairly without undue editorializing.

 

[Davidnic]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally--is attacked by the National Catholic Register that NCR is unwittingly playing into the hands of potentially corrupt leaders and would-be dictators and risking bringing a potential reign of terror upon our heads.

I realize that the National Catholic Register publishes some good articles and is normally socially responsible, but this grave error in judgment can have disastrous consequences I don't believe they've fully thought through, but which a small majority of Americans are well aware of.

The press is important but when they push a pro-abortion agenda...which they do, they have to be called on it. Just because they speak a truth at a time you would rather not hear it is not grave error. It is grave error to actually close our eyes to the Culture of Death.

 

[Davidnic]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally--is attacked by the National Catholic Register that NCR is unwittingly playing into the hands of potentially corrupt leaders and would-be dictators and risking bringing a potential reign of terror upon our heads.

I realize that the National Catholic Register publishes some good articles and is normally socially responsible, but this grave error in judgment can have disastrous consequences I don't believe they've fully thought through, but which a small majority of Americans are well aware of.

The view that the press can be accepted in doing this is against Pope Francis and his instruction to not passively accept the culture of death.

 

[bill5]

It is perfectly reasonable to expect that they present both sides of this polarizing debate accurately and fairly without undue editorializing.

It should be, but it's not. In fact it's a pipe dream. I doubt this is news to any of us.

Hollywood is far worse, like the media only far more militant and self-righteous about pushing their agendas.

 

[Fantine]

The view that the press can be accepted in doing this is against Pope Francis and his instruction to not passively accept the culture of death.

The Register could have opposed what they perceive is the mainstream media's acceptance of abortion, but their closer went much, much further, by saying:

The mainstream media’s pro-abortion bias is as evident as it is appalling, and further erodes the public’s faith in what was once considered a trustworthy institution.

Playing right into the hands of a president who wants to muzzle the press, suppress first amendment rights, and end all dissent. I am guessing, and only guessing, that the person who wrote this article studied journalism, and if he did, he cannot plead "ignorance" about the grave, catastrophic dangers our democracy faces...and yet he played into the hands of an administration who is just as likely to go after him and his newspaper as he is all the others.

If I believed this writer, playing into the hands of someone trying to end our constitutional rights, was merely ignorant, it could be forgivable...but I don't.

So yeah, let him say, "My perception is that the mainstream media supports abortion," but don't stick a knife in the heart of the only cultural institution capable of saving our democracy.

 

[mea kulpa]

The mainstream media's pro-abortion bias is as evident as it is appalling, and further eroded the public's faith in what was once considered a trustworthy institution.

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Media Pro-Abortion Bias is as Evident as it is Appalling

Its the fakestream media

 

[Davidnic]

The Register could have opposed what they perceive is the mainstream media's acceptance of abortion, but their closer went much, much further, by saying:



Playing right into the hands of a president who wants to muzzle the press, suppress first amendment rights, and end all dissent. I am guessing, and only guessing, that the person who wrote this article studied journalism, and if he did, he cannot plead "ignorance" about the grave, catastrophic dangers our democracy faces...and yet he played into the hands of an administration who is just as likely to go after him and his newspaper as he is all the others.

If I believed this writer, playing into the hands of someone trying to end our constitutional rights, was merely ignorant, it could be forgivable...but I don't.

So yeah, let him say, "My perception is that the mainstream media supports abortion," but don't stick a knife in the heart of the only cultural institution capable of saving our democracy.

Except they are right. And people honestly following Catholic news for years know how the mainstream media twists the facts on some issues, in particular on abortion. That has been mentioned here long, long before this president. The reason his hyperbole has sway is it has some truth in it. And that is why it is dangerous. Because those who want to push against that narrative will exhibit a slavish attitude that ignores the flaws of the press and those who want to extend the narrative will do the same the other way. But that is not what this writer is doing.

What the register does is to rightly point out that the press undermines the trust in it on this issue. And ignoring that the media is slanted on it, lies on it, spins it....Well that does more to advance the claim of fake or false news than anything else. Because it jeopardizes defense in the honest press.

The best lie is the one with a seed of truth, whose undying life the lie takes to thrive. Denying the truth at the core only makes the lie stronger. Trying to shame those telling the truth only makes the lie more pervasive. Trying to spin a truth that was existing before a current situation and applying it only to the present is a disservice to the truth.

The media has lost credibility on abortion. They skew to the side that says personhood is based on if you are wanted. If you are...you are a person. If you are not...you are material.

The truth does not hurt...it is the infection of the lie burning away that the truth exposes that hurts. And if you want a press strong enough to fight back against hyperbole against it, you have to expose the faults. That is also part of our rights and obligations as people. Perhaps the press became weak enough for the current assault on it because it became a grave image and false god to those on both sides who wanted to believe the bubble it built for them and accepted the lies.

The lies and agenda they have advanced on abortion has been opposed by the Church up to and including Pope Francis for years across the globe. That their self inflicted wound has caused them problems in other areas does not relieve us of the obligation to tell the truth about what they do on this issue or any other issue. Saying they have to be defended even if they lie because they provide an irreplaceable service has dangerous analogies.

 

[Fantine]

Your post makes me understand, but not forgive, this writer. Unlike him, I cannot malign the entire press because of a perceived perspective on an issue that occupies perhaps .001% of an annual news cycle.

But if a reader--or viewer--is analytical and detail oriented enough to even pick up on what this author sees, obviously they are detail oriented enough to see through Trump, and cynical enough not to care.

 

[Davidnic]

Oh the skew toward the Culture of Death condemned by Pope Francis and his predecessors is far beyond this issue. And it does not take all that much of a critical eye to see it.

 

[Davidnic]

Do you agree the media slants its coverage to sensationalist disaster and bad news and ignore the good in the world? That is also part of their error and culture that adds to this. That the media can change the lens it uses for some stories and by that lens it has people view reality a certain way. And that can be a good or bad one. Don't you think the media is indeed skewed toward the glamorization of evil?

 

[chevyontheriver]

I really believe that when the media--the only check and balance America has in what you surely must realize are treacherous times, globally, economically, and environmentally-

It's good Trump won so that the media could again serve as a check and a balance. Had Hillary won, they would have denied themselves that role in being rah rah for new president Clinton. They (NYTimes, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WAPO, LATimes, ...) are one sided. No question about it. Did the NYTimes bother to mention the March For Life in Washington DC this year, or did they continue their deliberate policy of not mentioning it AT ALL? In past years this studious avoiding of the march, by a paper that claimed to print 'All the News That's Fit to Print' has been laughable.

 

[Fantine]

Since 10000 marched in the Washington march for life and the 40 times that number the previous Saturday maybe they put things in perspective...

BTW the previous Saturday's March was also a March for life---the other 99% of the seamless garment.

 

[bill5]

Do you agree the media slants its coverage to sensationalist disaster and bad news and ignore the good in the world? That is also part of their error and culture that adds to this. That the media can change the lens it uses for some stories and by that lens it has people view reality a certain way. And that can be a good or bad one. Don't you think the media is indeed skewed toward the glamorization of evil?

To be fair, that is largely because that's what sells. People on the whole don't really want to hear good news; they want the dirt, the negative, etc. Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" nails it spot on.

 

[Davidnic]

To be fair, that is largely because that's what sells. People on the whole don't really want to hear good news; they want the dirt, the negative, etc. Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" nails it spot on.

I think it is a good mix of what sells and a bias. But yeah I agree what sells is a huge driver.