{"id":3478,"date":"2011-05-25T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/abc-news-shills-for-the-alan-guttmacher-institute-calls-it-news\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:58:28","slug":"abc-news-shills-for-the-alan-guttmacher-institute-calls-it-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/abc-news-shills-for-the-alan-guttmacher-institute-calls-it-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News shills for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, calls it news"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News<\/a> has put up basic pro-abortion propaganda<\/a> masquerading as news.<\/p>\n

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>, a strongly pro-abortion advocacy organization.\u00a0 The video is not even thinly disguised;\u00a0 it is straight-up pro-abortion<\/a> propaganda.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Ask yourself this:\u00a0 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?\u00a0 And would it put up such a video as the sole interpretation of the demographic “facts”?<\/p>\n

The idea is risible, of course.<\/p>\n

Of course, ABC News didn’t even bother to ASK any pro-life organization for a competing interpretation to the Guttmacher propaganda piece.\u00a0 Or, if ABC News did ask, it certainly didn’t report it.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, but even if it was true, so what?\u00a0 It’s not like abortion is a BAD thing to the pro-aborts of the world, right?).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

For now, just know this: you can’t trust the reporting of the major media on abortion.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n

Or on much else, either.<\/p>\n

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