Monday, April 15, 2013

NYT in March and Daily Beast on Friday Call Gosnell's Born-Alive Victims 'Fetuses'

Viable fetus and womb
Newsbusters  "In the paper's only story relating to the trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on March 19 on Page A17, Jon Hurdle at the New York Times opened by telling readers that "In opening statements in court on Monday, prosecutors charged that a doctor who operated a women’s health clinic here killed seven viable fetuses ..." -- not already-born infants."
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"Even more troubling than the lack of coverage of the Gosnell trial is the apparent indication that there are more than a few members of the press, including at least one at a publication which believes itself to be the standard of journalism, who won't recognize a just-born infant for what it is: a baby."

More About AP's Tags: Gosnell's Serial Murder Trial Is About 'Abortion Controversy' and 'Reproductive Rights'
" "Abortion controversy" has been applied to 10 of the 14 stories about Gosnell, with no apparent logic as to why it was or wasn't used.
"The "reproductive rights" tag has been used in the following Gosnell "Big Story" articles:"    Examples given:

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