CBS finds missing March for Life photos
On January 25 I reported that a CBS slide show entitled, “Activists Hold Annual March For Life On Roe v. Wade Anniversary,” curiously contained no photos of pro-lifers, only seven shots of pro-aborts protesting in front of the Supreme Court building.
Well, CBS apparently found its missing roll of film. Reported Chicago Now today:
Pro-life advocates like Jill Stanek were incredulous and it wasn’t long before the comments section on the CBS website exploded with pro-lifers crying foul. Dozens of unhappy commenters remarked on how badly the bias of CBS galled them.
Finally a day or so later, CBS altered its slide show and added some photos of some of the actual participants of the pro-life march. The slide show now features 7 photos of pro-lifers and an equal amount of pro-abortion supporters.
Interestingly, though, there was no notice and no explanation by the CBS affiliate that it altered/added to the slide show and no explanation why the slide show had no pro-life photos for the first few days it was live on the web.
Pro-lifers can take heart that they were heard by the TV station causing it to take action to correct the sleight. But the fact that CBS put up a slide show of photos taken at a pro-life rally but didn’t feature a single photo of any pro-lifers pretty much shows the bias from which the TV station came when it initially posted the webpage.
But even with the alteration, we still see CBS’ bias. After all there were 500,000 pro-life supporters and a paltry few hundred pro-infanticide supporters yet CBS gives them equal treatment as if they were the same.
Yep, the bias still reigns.
Actually, there were several hundred thousand marchers. And GetReligion.org reports the pro-life photos actually went up three days after the March.
In other news, Washington Post’s ombudsman agreed his paper’s photo coverage of the March was also wanting:
[Y]ou can find images of the large crowd taken by amateurs on Flickr or Facebook, and I imagine the AP took some, too. Probably Post photographers did as well.
But these shots didn’t find their way into the main Web photo gallery on the march. And I think this is where The Post fell down in its coverage of the march this year. And that’s mostly what antiabortion readers wrote to me about.
The online photo gallery contains 10 photos: seven tight shots of antiabortion demonstrators, two of protesters from the small abortion-rights counter-demonstration on the steps of the Supreme Court and one that showed both sides confronting each other there. In fact, eight of the 10 shots were taken at the high court….
I would have chosen more from the broad expanse of the rally, and at least one photo showing a lot of cheerful, festive people….
Vernon Loeb, Post Local editor, said, “In retrospect I wish we had given readers a better sense of the overall magnitude of the march… it was far larger than 17,000.”
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Still funny as I saw THOUSANDS of pro-lifers and like 5 pro-aborts – that they have an equal amount of pics for each. Mmhmm…
Best comment on the CBS story prior to them pasting up a bunch of real March pictures after the fact.
Christina Dunigan
CBS, you missed the HUGE story here, which evidently is that pro-lifers have mastered invisibility cloaking technology on a massive scale.
January 25, 2012 at 9:53 pm | Reply | Report comment
Whoo-hoo! Not only are we ninjas, we’re ninjas with cloaking technology. I feel so incredibly sci-fi and awesome right now. :D
Doesn’t Surprise Me That CBS “Lost” The Pro-Life Photos. Doen’t Fit Their Agenda.
Such a funny comment Alice! LL :D
LOL!!!!
“pro-lifers have mastered invisibility cloaking technology on a massive scale.”
More like they are so blinded by their actions that they do not see very well …
can’t see the unborn and can’t see well enough to count very well either.
Now what action was it that one was told, “Keep that up and you will go blind”? H-m-m-m. There is Spiritual Blindness for sure.
That’s a relief. Pictures of this pointless event that happens every year in identical form and never accomplishes anything simply must be shared with the 90% of American citizens who couldn’t care less about it. The liberal media is derelict in its duties by not reporting what conservatives believe should be considered “news”.
What America does not see, it won’t address – until the pictures of the Civil Rights situation, the Vietnam War and other atrocities came out, people nation-wide and internationally were not aware and did not demand action.
A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, and when we see what abortion is, and see that there are many who are willing, at their own time and expense, to make a public statement as the March for Life, we will win the hearts and minds of many more.
We are doing that already – and this cover-up and ‘guidance’ by the press to steer public opinion, will finally stop when enough people know, see and act.
Goodness always prevails – it may take time, but Goodness wins. We know the end of the story.
If that’s the case, joan, then why’d they do any story about it at all in the first place, instead of a slanted one?
I saw a lovely couple on the sidewalk as the March went by. The woman was taking pics with her cell phone while her husband smiled at the marchers. She exclaimed, “I didn’t know this was happening!! This is wonderful!! I didn’t know!!” She was thrilled to see all of us. There ARE more pro-lifers out there than the media-employees-in-their-own-echo-chamber care to admit.
And it was sooo heartwarming and inspirational to see young clergy and young nuns and novices!!!!!! All the youth present were overwhelming. Beautiful young faces as far as the eye could see!!! No, Joan, you can’t rain on THAT parade!
And yet Joan, you would have been the first to cry foul if the media did the same thing to the Occupy Wall Street protestors…which, even if you counted their number altogether wouldn’t come close in number to or be anywhere near as respectful, peaceful, joyous, law abiding marchers at the March for Life…
So, the photos of the proaborts didn’t go missing-just the ones of the prolifers. Uh huh.
Joan: “That’s a relief. Pictures of this pointless event that happens every year in identical form and never accomplishes anything simply must be shared with the 90% of American citizens who couldn’t care less about it.”
So why did they instead publish five pictures of twelve pro-choice activisits?