Why Isn't Anti-Abortion in the News?

This week as I've watched news coverage for the 32nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. In the secular news media (The big ones you've heard of like CNN, MSNBC, CBC, CTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) at most I've seen a little text scrolling by at the bottom of the screen about the march. The only video pictures I saw were a couple of closeups of people talking.

The interesting thing about this to me, is the backgrounds of those shots.

As part of my work, I make videos of groups of people--sometimes large groups. I always include what are called 'establishing shots' in my videos. This is a wide angle shot that shows you how big the group of people is. If it's really a lot of people, I pan the camera to show clearly how many people are there.

Last year they had a Pro Abortion March in Washington D.C., complete with people like Whoopi Goldberg waving a coat hanger in the air over her head. When the secular news -CNN, etc- covered that story, they gave it lots of air time, and they made sure that they showed lots of wide shots to establish how many people there were present at that event.

It's very interesting that CNN and others don't do TV news coverage of the pro-life march in the same way. They don't show the wide shots of all the people. Not on CNN. On EWTN, they DO show how many people are there. It makes me wonder.

How many people were at the pro-life march? How many were at the pro-abortion march? Shouldn't fair, unbiased news coverage mention a basic fact like that? If it doesn't mention it, or doesn't even show it with a wide shot, is it fair?

In 2002 after the World Youth Day in Toronto, the Holy Father went to Guatamala, then to Mexico for the canonization Mass of St. Juan Diego. The official attendance count from the government of Mexico was approximately 12 million people present for that event. Peter Jennings of ABC news was saying on the air that there were "hundreds of thousands" of people present at the event. If Jennnings was talking about 300,000 people, that's 2.5% of 12 million. He was off by 97.5% in his estimate. That's a lot. For a world-class news outfit like ABC news to be off in estimating by 97.5% is pretty surprising. Was it on purpose, maybe?

There were people at that time who said about the 12 million attendance "oh, that's nothing, every year 30 million Hindu pilgrims come to wash themselves in the Ganges river." That's true. But that's 30 million people over the course of a month.

For the canonization mass of St. Juan Diego, 12.5 million people dropped whatever else they were doing, and many travelled from very far away to be there. 12.5 million people showed up to be present in the same general place over a period of some hours in one single day. There is hardly a reasonable comparison you can make with the annual Hindu pilgimmage to the Ganges. Apples and oranges, folks.

It turns out that the 12.5 million people who showed up for thar canonization mass in 2002 was the largest gathering of human beings for a single event in all of recorded human history. The second-largest gathering was the WYD final mass in Manila in the early 90s.

Did you hear any of this in the news?

I haven't seen the official count yet, but from the TV pictures I've seen on EWTN, (locally Shaw Digital channel 249--call shaw and ask for it if you don't have it already) there were a lot of people at the March for Life.

What do you think?

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