This post is a follow up to our post of April 18th, titled “Day 819 Of The QC Times Ban On Any News Reference to Gosnell Murder Trial.” If you are unfamiliar with the Gosnell trial read that post and also this one from these pages.
Incredibly on May 6th the QC Times posted their first and only news story to date about the grisly sensational Gosnell murder trail, a matter of national importance with profound medical ethics and policy implications.
It should be understood that there have been numerous AP dispatches during the last two months, indeed since our last accounting the Dispatch and Argus (D-A) “QC Online” has posted seven news item. All of their posts were attributed to the Associated Press (AP) . Both newspapers primarily rely on the AP for their national news feeds. Indeed the QC Times has a special relationship to the AP. * Based on the D-A’s cursory performance as regards the matter we have upgraded them from a C- in our last analysis, to a C+ now. The QC Times rates in the realm of willfully flunking
Our methodology is to do a simple site search using the search term “Gosnell” using each newspaper’s online search process and record what comes up. We count all listed posts involving a news item with the Gosnell murder trial as the post’s primary subject. Thus we count even minor updates posted by the AP to their original story. Whether the stories make it to the print pages is not determined by our simple comparative process.
Note that during the period April 29th to May 3rd the QC Times online edition listed forty-nine stories or updates regarding Jason Collins the professional basketball player who announced he is gay. The QC Times editors have a bizarre sense of values.
Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working Families had this to say about the Gosnell news blackout that has occurred nationwide.
There is a saying in journalism, “If it bleeds, it leads.” In other words, high profile crimes make headlines. Unless, of course, the news threatens left-wing dogma like the “freedom of choice.” In that case, Big Media dutifully ignore the story as though it never happened.
For example, one Washington Post reporter brushed off the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell as a “local crime story” presumably with no public policy implications. Right — just like the Trayvon Martin shooting or the Newtown shootings were “local crime stories” with no policy implications . . .
Clearly, in Big Media’s view, it is far more important for you to know that a basketball player sleeps with men, and that the president is proud of him …
We would remind the editors of the QC Times — “There are two kinds of journalists, those who dig for the truth and those who bury it.” The later is a journalistic corruption as rank as lying. R Mall
* Information from the Lee Enterprises corporate Web site 5-10-13: Mary E. Junck is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lee Enterprises which owns the QC Times. She is also chairman of the board of directors of The Associated Press.
