{"id":39289,"date":"2013-08-12T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2013-08-12T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:40:28","slug":"abc-sends-camera-to-marchonmedia-holds-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abc-sends-camera-to-marchonmedia-holds-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Never mind!&#8221;: ABC sends camera to #MarchonMedia, holds silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/lifemarchonmedia.com\/rally\/\">March on Media rally<\/a> took place this past Thursday. We had upwards of a hundred and fifty people gathered outside ABC, including a you-can&#8217;t-miss-&#8217;em crowd of yellow shirts from the ever-awesome Crossroads USA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39292\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crossroads.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39292\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39292\" alt=\"Crossroads\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crossroads-300x183.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crossroads-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crossroads.png 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RH Reality Check thought they were wearing green.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four speakers took to the mic to demand decent, fact-based reporting on abortion, mentioning such ridiculousness as ABC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/lauren-enk\/2013\/07\/23\/nets-give-pro-abortion-wendy-davis-3-times-coverage-entire-gosnell-trial\">outsized coverage<\/a> of Wendy Davis versus Kermit Gosnell, the total blackout of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/inhuman\/\">Live Action&#8217;s <i>Inhuman<\/i> investigation<\/a>, and ABC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/media-reality-check\/media-go-bat-abortion-giant-ignore-catholics-vs-obama-controversy\">shrug of the shoulders<\/a> at Planned Parenthood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2013\/08\/when-planned-parenthood-isnt-news-fraud-edition\/\">defrauding of the poor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be very clear about this: ABC had a crowd of activists literally outside their window, raking them across the coals for their appalling bias in reporting the facts on abortion. All of DeSales Street was echoing with our speakers&#8217; voices; heck, ABC staff were looking out the window at us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39096\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/life-march-on-media1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39096\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39096\" alt=\"life-march-on-media1\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/life-march-on-media1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"389\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/life-march-on-media1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/life-march-on-media1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Not to draw too much attention to you, Sir, but we do have an ABC camera here.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So what have the folks at ABC said in their own defense? Well&#8230;nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, not a word out of these guys.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ABC-Cameraman.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ABC Cameraman\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ABC-Cameraman-210x300.png\" width=\"174\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABC&#8217;s camera man.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, considering that ABC saw fit to avoid the Kermit Gosnell trial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/biasalerts\/finally-56-days-later-abc-ends-blackout-and-covers-gosnell-house-horrors\">until 56 days in<\/a>. But on the other hand, the network that considered spine-severing Gosnell unworthy of coverage can&#8217;t say the same of Live Action&#8217;s rally, because they sent a camera man out to cover us. In fact, our own Lila Rose noticed the gentleman and called him out: &#8220;We&#8217;ll see if ABC is actually going to be airing any of this footage. That&#8217;ll be yet another test to see if they&#8217;re reporting the news, because this is the first time something like this has been done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Admittedly, Live Action should have known better; as we&#8217;ve seen in the past, the real way to get ABC to cover you is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/biasalerts\/abc-continues-shameful-blackout-gosnell-coverage-finds-time-sno-kone-battle\">launch a snow-cone war<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>ABC&#8217;s reporting priorities have been a wreck for a long time, especially when it comes to abortion. That&#8217;s why we held our March on Media rally in the first place. But now we&#8217;ve directly called out an ABC cameraman filming us, right outside ABC&#8217;s Washington headquarters \u2013 and the network&#8217;s pretending that nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but this is some of the loudest silence I&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See no pro-life rally, hear no pro-life rally, report no pro-life rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":39096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Never mind!&quot;: ABC sends camera to #MarchonMedia, holds silence - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abc-sends-camera-to-marchonmedia-holds-silence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Never mind!&quot;: ABC sends camera to #MarchonMedia, holds silence - 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