Author Faye D Ginsburg said the following in 1989:
“The media in general gives disproportionate attention to violence and conflates those who carry out that activity with the [Pro-life]movement as a whole. It is not only that violence makes a good story that sells newspapers. The profession of journalism is dominated by liberals who favor a pro-choice position. Not surprisingly, the more extreme and reprehensible pro-life activities that paint the movement in the worst light receive the most coverage.”
Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley and Los Angeles California: University of California Press, 1989) 52
In the 1980s – 1990s, coverage of the abortion issue was extremely biased. It still is – and this is evidenced by how few media outlets covered the Gosnells trial – but it was much much worse back in the day. I have always believed that the Internet is one of the major reasons why there are fewer abortions today and why the pro-life movement is stronger, much stronger, that was in the 1990s when I was first getting involved. People now have access to news and information that was not available when the major news sources were able to control all the information that people got. Now sites like Live Action, Lifenews, Life Site News, etc. give information to thousands and thousands of people a day. This website gets around 1500 visits a day, and the information on it reaches far more people than I could ever reach without the Internet. But the media bias is still a problem.
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