Media Bias

   Maybe you've noticed that despite a million and a half abortions per year
in the U.S., there's no such thing as an "abortionist" in the news reports. 
The preferred label is "abortion provider."  
 
   The pro-abortion -- oops, "pro-choice" -- bias in the media is so blatant
that it has finally become a scandal among journalists who uphold the
traditional standard of impartial coverage.  First Richard Harwood, the
Washington Post's ombudsman, blasted his paper's "shabby" coverage of the
April 28 anti-abortion rally at the Washington Monument.  Now David Shaw of
the Los Angeles Times has done a huge, four-part study of media abortion
coverage that finds such shabbiness is the rule in today's journalism.
 
   Another study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs cites
statistical evidence for the same conclusion.  Ethan Bronner of the Boston
Globe says: "I think that when abortion opponents complain about a bias in
newsrooms against their cause, they're absolutely right."  An unnamed network
official adds: "The problem, pure and simple, is that the media's loaded with
women who are strongly pro-choice."  John Leo of U.S. News & World Report
scores "the contempt, insularity, and obliviousness that lie behind the press
failures on abortion."

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