The video material about Planned Parenthood selling fetal tissue from abortions is a strong indictment of Planned Parenthood. I don’t know if it will have any long term effects on Planned Parenthood.
My problem, and the problem of 20 million people who feel the mainstream media are biased and holding back any material that harms their Leftist ideology, is that we see examples of this bias too often.
In the Planned Parenthood case, the NYTimes had their first article on July 20th and claimed that the video was edited to present a false story about the fetal tissue sales. That wasn’t true. The edited version was released at the same time as the full unedited version on the website of the Center for Medical Progress.
The NYTimes did five more articles on the subject and never corrected the original error. It even repeated the lie in an editorial. Two weeks later, on August 6th the Times corrected the story in its corrections section.
This sort of dissembling happens every day and it may be the cause of so much national distress and our sense of a civil uprising.
I take the dissembling and deliberate obfuscation as a fact. I remember the JournoList that had 400 Lefty writers and editors of the mainstream media daily comparing notes on the news they planned to publish. Every big name was on the List. JournoList operated from mid 2007 to mid 2010.
I am willing to believe that a similar black site remains in existence. It continues to protect Obama and most Democrats from harmful news reports.
The recent EPA arsenic and mercury spill into the Colorado River was a complete cover-up. The EPA took two days to tell local governments about the problem. It took a week for the EPA director to fly-out and look at the disaster. And President Obama never missed a stroke on his golf vacation to publicly acknowledge the seriousness of the problem.
What happened to the wonderful journalists who reported on every daily failing of President George W. Bush, real or imagined?
(See the first comment and reference below.)