Category: Media Bias

By Tim Graham  Something shocking happened on NPR on Friday. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed a pro-life activist in Texas, Rebecca Parma of Texas Right to Life. It was less shocking that it was hostile throughout. He tossed questions like “Wasn’t your strategy actually to stop abortions in a way that is unconstitutional at the moment?” And: …

By Dave Andrusko To be fair, when it comes to abortion, the Washington Post’s “fact checker” (Glenn Kessler) does stumble across the truth on occasion. But his assessment of the assertion by Rep. Pramila Jayapal that “The Hyde amendment is something that the majority of the country does not support” only warrants a mere “Two …

By Dave Andrusko Elsewhere today, we reposted a brilliant column written for Newsbusters by Tim Graham. In a nutshell, once it was safe—after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away—suddenly a couple of media types wondered if NPR’s Nina Totenberg’s five-decade long friendship with the late Justice might have crossed some ethical boundary. …

By Dave Andrusko The “guest essay” written by Thomas B. Edsall is as perfect an example of bigotry masked as exposing bigotry as you can ever expect. Even by the standards of the abortion-loving New York Times, “Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion” is slimy, a broadside at pro-lifers in general, Southerners in particular, …

By Laura Echevarria, NRL Director of Communications and Press Secretary With a few exceptions, the mainstream media tends to follow the “rules” laid out for them by pro-abortion groups. NARAL, for example, routinely provides media “guides” to reporters. NARAL outlines how journalists should cover the abortion issue—stipulating everything from what kind of stories reporters should …

By Dave Andrusko Covid 19 in general, vaccine mandates in particular, are not our issues. What is our issue, however, is when someone—that someone being MSNBC’s blustery Joe Scarborough—shifts from one rant about mandates to announce, out of the blue, that abortion is a “specifically enumerated constitutional right.” I get it that television personalities rift …

By Nancy Flanders  A recent Business Insider piece features misleading information sourced only from abortionists and abortion-friendly organizations. In the article, writer Bethany Dawson makes the shockingly misleading claim that a preborn child’s heartbeat isn’t present at six weeks and that “the sound of the thumping is from the machine.” This sort of obfuscation and attempted dismissal of …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. When we chose what to repost from what appeared a year ago in NRL News Today, the number one criteria is that the subject matter remains 100% relevant. Can journalists’ “curating” (that is, slicing and dicing to get a preordained result) possibly be current? This particular example is very much …

By Laura Echevarria, NRL Director of Communications and Press Secretary According to the U.S. News Desert, a joint project of the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the Knight Foundation, over 70 daily newspapers have been lost since 2004 and over 2,000 weekly or non-daily newspapers have been lost. In …

By Dave Andrusko As all pro-lifers know, whenever there is a case headed to the Supreme Case (as is with the Mississippi Gestational Age Act) or a big pro-life victory (Texas’s SB 8 went into effect at midnight), the “media” will crank out a poll telling us how much in the minority we are. It’s …