Mainstream media largely ignores March for Life despite Trump’s historic address

Jan 23, 2018 by Jill

by Lisa Bourne, LifeSite:

The major mainstream media networks’ typical editorial approach of all but ignoring the largest pro-life gathering in the United States was not affected much by the first-ever live stream address of the March for Life by a sitting president on Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans uniting from across the country and beyond in Washington D.C. to give a visible witness for unborn life garnered the same negligible mention from the mainstream press just as they have for nearly all of the 44 years prior.

The “big 3” television networks devoted a combined 2 minutes and 6 seconds of coverage to the 2018 March for Life in their evening news coverage, according to a study from the Media Research Center (MRC).

The networks gave this small amount of coverage despite the large numbers of pro-life Americans converging upon the nation’s Capitol and also President Donald Trump addressing the March for Life live from the Rose Garden.

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