This is the march the media don’t want you to see.
The March for Life [1] is by far the largest annual rally in Washington, D.C., but each year, it’s met with a near-black-out from major media. Last year, in a new campaign [2] to condemn the media's silence on abortion, the Media Research Center invited marchers from across the country to send in video footage for a short documentary of what the march is really like.
The result is this documentary [3] – a compilation of footage from the 2014 March for Life, the story the media refuse to report.
Last year, the broadcast networks devoted [4] 46 seconds to the hundreds of thousands [5] marching in freezing temperatures [6] at the Washington, D.C. march to protest and commemorate the 55 million [7] babies killed since 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision.
To put that in perspective, the networks covered the
National Zoo's baby panda cub six times more than that [4] – and the Climate March four-and-a-half times more than that [8].
In 2013, the networks spent a 17 seconds on the March for Life (in comparison,
they spent 521 times more on the Manti Te’o football scandal [9]). When
ABC, NBC or CBS do cover the march, they ironically refuse [10] to use the word "life."
The 2015 March for Life takes place [11] on January 22 with the theme [12], “Every Life is a Gift.”
The MRC wants to thank the many individuals and prolife organizations who braved the elements to bring us these videos. Special thanks to Kate Bryan for her help and advice in making this happen.
For more footage of the massive crowds at last year’s March for Life, watch MRC Culture's footage here [13].
— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter. [14]