Was the Washington Times the only newspaper that covered it?
There wasn’t a word about it in my local paper or news broadcasts.
Jim:
The Main Stream Media has a POLICY of not reporting Pro-Life Events if they can get away with it, or of “Providing ‘Balance’” when forced to report them - This is the best I could do…
Essex County Conservative Examiner
March for Life draws Record Crowd
(Andrew P.) Schlafly cited an on-air estimate reported by the Eternal Word Television Network as stating that 400,000 people were in attendance. After the march, he enthusiastically predicted that next year he would lead three buses, at 47 passengers each.
OneNewsNow correspondent Charlie Butts estimated that 250,000 people attended; Lillian Kwon of
The Christian Post estimated 300,000. However, direct observation easily supports the 400,000-person estimate. The crowd was at least as dense as was the crowd for the 9/12 March on Washington last year, and filled 7th Street W, Constitution Avenue, and 1st Street E to the limit of visibility.
The participants varied in age from very young children to elderly people, including several in wheelchairs. (One of Schlafly’s marchers, apparently suffering from achondroplastic dwarfism, was still determined to participate, even if in a wheelchair.) Contrary to a report released before-the-fact by
Newsweek, many young women were in attendance, and contributed some of the most enthusiastic voices in support of the pro-life position. As the march progressed, sympathetic onlookers lined both sides of Constitution Avenue, and even some office workers watched and waved to the marchers from the roof of an office building overlooking the Mall near the West Lawn.
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Don’t you just love that “Before the Fact” reporting by NEWSWEEK!:doh2: It’s “Par for the Course”, but it’s still appalling! :banghead: Don’t they realize that, with the Internet and Alternative News, People have ways of checking out what they say. and, That when they catch them in LIES which can have NO reason except for either LAZINESS or Anti-Christian Bigotry, it destroys their credibility?
This just might be why the MSM didn’t want to report on the MARCH…
Washington Post - Young Activists adding fuel to antiabortion side
Robert McCartney - Sunday, Jan., 24, 2010
I went to the March for Life rally Friday on the Mall expecting to write about its irrelevance…
How wrong I was. The antiabortion movement feels it’s gaining strength, even if it’s not yet ready to predict ultimate triumph, and
Roe supporters (including me) are justifiably nervous.
…I was especially struck by the large number of young people among the tens of thousands at the march. It suggests that the battle over abortion will endure for a long time to come.
“We are the pro-life generation,” said signs carried by the crowd, about half its members appearing to be younger than 30. There were numerous large groups of teenagers, many bused in by Roman Catholic schools and youth groups. They and their adult leaders said the youths were taught from an early age to oppose abortion.
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Another link with analysis -
National Catholic Register
Pro-Life Youth & enthusiasm frighten the Opposition
ncregister.com/blog/pro-life_youth_enthusiasm_frighten_the_opposition/
It’s simple - over 1/2 of the crowds are under 30. They’re losing the Demographic debate, and these kids are growing up with parents who’ve had Abortions:
Young Activists - Page 2
“I’ve seen the pain that abortion causes women,” said Michelle Fabian, youth minister of St. Catherine of Siena Church in Lancaster County, Pa. She said her mother still “can’t listen to a vacuum cleaner without shuddering” because it reminds her of the equipment used when she had an abortion before Fabian was born.
And, Everyone in that parade under the age of 35 knows “But for the Grace of God”, that could have been him or her.
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
