http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/10/march-for-life-2012/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I was a little annoyed at the clear bias of the writer, so I fired off a quick letter to the editor. Which went like this:
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I'm not sure how this blatantly biased
article managed to end up on your site, but I would imagine that
there were more even tempered, non biased reports that you could have
chosen from. Even if you would have edited the wording to a less
inflammatory headline, not to mention the inaccuracies in "estimated"
numbers.
Right from the start I found the
writer's bias was front and foremost with the term
"Anti-Abortionists", instead of calling it by what everyone
else knew to be the "National March for Life". This was
more than a protest against abortion, and it was disingenuous of the
writer to even suggest that was merely the point.
I delve further into the article to
find an offhand "police" estimated turnout of 15000 (less
than last year), when organizers and other media come to a record
breaking number of 19,500 (so much for fact checking.)
There is even mention of a "few
dozen" Pro-choice protesters, but they are courteously given the
"socially acceptable" moniker of "Pro-choice"
rather than a more equally inflammatory title of "Pro-Abortionists".
I think it's fair to say that there
comes with reporting a certain expectation of "Journalistic
integrity", which I found sorely lacking of Terry Pedwell and
the Canadian Press. Any editor worth his salt would have toned down
the biased rhetoric, and made this article an actual piece of
Journalism.
Sincerely
Bob Klassen
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H/T Twitter friend @AlbertaGrl and @JoanneBLY for both input and prompting me to write.
About the "March for Life" rally; http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-canadian-march-for-life-smashes-previous-attendance-records-19500
Here's a pro-abortion rally: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortion-advocates-stage-huge-protest-with-over-50-ppl-against-pro-life-mot
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