Alexandria, VA – The evening news broadcasts all
but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our
Constitutionally-protected religious freedom, according to a new Media
Research Center analysis.
ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused
to report news of the 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations suing the
Obama administration. What could have been more newsworthy than this?
NBC
Nightly News devoted an entire story to a lunar eclipse; ABC led
their evening broadcast and devoted an incredible three minutes and 30
seconds to the sentencing of the Rutgers student who spied on his gay
roommate with a web camera.
CBS Evening News gave this historic news ... 19 seconds.
MRC President Brent Bozell reacts:
“This is the worst bias
by omission I have seen in the quarter century history of the Media
Research Center. Every American knows about the Chinese communists
withholding for 20 years the news that the US had
landed on the moon, because it reflected poorly on the government. Our
US media today are no different. They are now withholding news from the
American people if it is harmful to the re-election of Barack Obama.
“This is not a mistake,
nor is it an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks. This is a
deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the
‘Chosen One’ who ABC, CBS and NBC have worked
so hard to elect and are now abusing their journalistic influence to
reelect. And when a network like CBS mentions the suit 
ever-so-briefly,
they deliberately distort the issue by framing it as a contraception
lawsuit instead of what they know it to be: a
religious freedom issue. It’s bogus, dishonest – a flat out lie.
“The fact is that the
Catholic Church has unleashed legal Armageddon on the administration,
promising ‘we will not comply’ with a health law that strips Catholics
of their religious liberty. If this isn't 'news'
then there's no such thing as news. This should be leading newscasts
and the subject of special, in-depth reports. Instead, these networks
are sending a
clear message
to all Americans that the networks will go to any lengths – even
censoring from the public an event of this historic magnitude – to
prevent the release of any information that will hurt
Obama’s chances of re-election.
"The so-called 'news' media have sunk to a new low. This is despicable."
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