NewsBusters faults media for "do[ing] nothing to help their audience understand why [Tiller] was targeted"
June 02, 2009 10:57 am ET by Media Matters staff
From a June 2 NewsBusters entry:
George Tiller, the Kansas doctor notorious for his commitment to performing late-term abortions, was killed May 31 while attending a Sunday morning church service.
By his count, Tiller performed 60,000 abortions. His clinic, Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, was one of only three clinics in the United States that offered abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy.
Loss of human life is a tragedy and should be reported as such, and premeditated murder is always wrong - something all the mainstream pro-life groups were quick to affirm in the wake of the killing. But in reporting this tragic story, the news media have much to say about a man who helped provide women with the "right" to end their pregnancies, but have little to say about lives he helped to end. In failing to highlight what Tiller's work actually entailed, reporters do nothing to help their audience understand why this man was targeted.
Previously:
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Tiller was providing a safe procedure for women.
Glad to see the teabaggers are apologizing for their fellow terrorists.
What has been the reaction from these same Right Wing screechmonkies any time somebody even remotely suggested that we should try to understand the real reasons we were attacked on 9/11?
That's what I thought.
Newsbusters is essentially saying "it's totally cool that Tiller was murdered. It's just that teh librul MSM doesn't demonize him to our satisfaction. If they did, everybody else would totally think his murder was cool too."