While small “Gun Control” rally in DC garners national media attention , 1/2 a million protesters at the “March of Life’ days earlier get ignored
January 26,2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, while the media focus on the ‘gun control march” i Washing ton , they managed to over look a far larger pro life march . The obvious bias became a point of ridicule on social media and social media picked up the slack .
The march for life saw by some estimates over 500,000 people in the freezing cold show up in Washington , while by most estimates the gun control rally had a meager 3200 demonstrators.
No matter which side of any issue you are on ,the issue here is the media being anything more than just a mouth piece for the administration.
A free society needs a functioning free press .
On twitter especially, the bogus mainstream media coverage got endless retorts .
Christine Rousselle @crousselle “Gun control advocates march on capital” is the main headline on CNN. Did they miss the 500k ppl IN THE SNOW yest at the March for Life?
Nick Hall @nickhall69 3200 march for gun control..on the news, 500,000 march for life yet not a peep on the news #enoughsaid
Matthew @mconn16I see tons of coverage of the gun control march in D.C. which is fine. But where was the coverage of the March for Life which drew 500,000!
Jay Caruso @jaycaruso MSNBC barely gave any coverage to the March For Life, but a small gun control march? FRONT PAGE BABY. https://twitpic.com/byhzop
Ed Stetzer ✔ @edstetzer Fascinating to see the difference btwn the national news coverage of D.C. pro-life march and the D.C. gun control march.
I saw both groups on national news stations so i do not know what you are watching or reading.