Liberal Spin - Abortion and Ave Maria

The following was made known to me by a friend...

In a story in the St. Pete Times about the two recent deaths by women taking the abortion RU-486 pill, it was determined that Planned Parenthood had told these two women to take the pill in a way that was in conflict with the FDA approved instructions and therefore caused their deaths.

What is so interesting and biased in this reporting is that Planned Parenthood is mentioned only as "the organization" in the beginning of the story and only identified by name later. Why? Because this was a front page story and the editors obviously didn't want Planned Parenthood to get a bad name to the casual reader, so they called PP "the organization" on the front page and didn't mention it by name until the story continued on deep into the section of the newspaper.

You can read the entire article online HERE, but you won't get the full effect unless you're holding a newspaper in your hand.

Secondly, where's the public outrage against Planned Parenthood? They are responsible not only for the deaths of the innocent babies that were aborted, but of those two mis-guided mothers as well. Where's the call to justice now?

In another subtle liberal spin, I recently read an article about the creation of the Ave Maria city and campus down near Naples, Florida. I don't have an online link handy, but in it the author of the article tells about the upcoming battle over the ACLU against the plans for this Catholic city (no birth control, no abortions available in city limits, etc.). In this article, the writer mentions that the city is being built near Naples in a location where migrant farm workers used to work. Why is that sentence in there? Does it have anything to do with the subject of the article? No. It's there to make it seem like this city creation was at the expense of the poor migrant farm workers.

I have two reactions to this. First, the migrant farm workers are probably not U.S. citizens, so I don't care. Second, I'd bet those migrant workers, and more, are currently being hired by the construction companies building the city itself.

So, when you read the paper, look for these subtle ways the liberal media spins the story toward their social or political opinion. They're tricky, but we're smarter.