Shameless Bias by Omission

Shameless Bias by Omission

The relentless pursuit of the truth - www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Thurs. May 31/12

Thank you Brent Bozell - Townhall.com - May 23, 2012

You’d think the largest legal action in American history in defense of religious liberty would be a major new story. But ABC, CBS and NBC don’t judge news events by their inherent importance as relates to the future of our freedoms. They deliver the news according to a simple formula. Does it or doesn’t it advance the re-election of Barack Obama? IF IT DOESN’T, IT ISN’T NEWS.

On Monday, May 21, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations sued the Obama administration over it ridiculous narrow idea of how a “religious institution” can be defined under the Obamacare law. Never has the Catholic Church -- or any order, for that matter - undertaken something of this magnitude. It’s truly jaw-dropping that ABC and NBC completely ignored this action on their evening newscasts, while “CBS Evening News” devoted just 19 seconds to this historic event. NO, LET’S BE BLUNT. THEY SPIKED THE NEWS.

This is the worst example of shameless bias by omission I have seen in the quarter-century history of the Media Research Center. We recall the Chinese Communists withholding from its citizenry for 20 years the news that the U.S. had landed on the moon because it reflected poorly on their government. Never, never would the U.S. “news” media behave thusly -- they just did.

This is not an honest mistake. It was not an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks. It did not occur too late for the evening deadline. This was a deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the “Chosen One” who ABC, CBS and NBC have worked so hard to elect and for whom they are now abusing their journalistic influence. Even when CBS mentioned the suit … they deliberately distorted the issue by framing it as a contraception lawsuit when it is a much broader religious freedom issue…

This should be seen as a very dark cloud on Obama’s political horizon. The Catholic Church , with 60 million Americans describing themselves a Catholics, has unleashed legal Armageddon on the administration, promising “we will not comply” with a health law that strips Catholics of their religious liberty. If this isn’t “news,” then there’s no such thing as news…

Catholic taxpayers who help fund National Public Radio were also ignored on the evening newscast with that sad joke of a title -- “All Things Considered.”… The print press isn’t much better. For the Washington Post, there was a little one-column story buried on page A. That fish wrap known as USA Today had a really tiny headline and 128-word item at the very bottom of A2. The N. Y. Times had a perfunctory 419-word dispatch on A17...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops used the word “horror” to describe what Team Obama is mandating. On the only broadcast show to give him coverage CBS “This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose asked Dolan if the White House misled him on this issue… anyone who heard Obama’s 2009 commencement speech at Notre Dame about “honoring the conscience: of his opponents on abortion has proven he is completely insincere…

George H. Kubeck - Now you can understand better what I mean by the 2 faced- double-standard media! Access Townhall.com daily; be the first to read Brent Bozell’s column. Weekly, he is on Sean Hannity Fox News- 6 PM.