I’ve gotten so many emails and updates on the Komen funding, that it’s been hard to keep track of who said what during which ridiculous interview. Luckily, there’s at least one article out there urging the media to do right by all the parties involved and at least acknowledge that a good number of people actually support the withdrawal of funds from Planned Parenthood.
Even if some forms of partiality are inevitable, journalists betray their calling when they simply ignore self-evident truths about a story.
Three truths, in particular, should be obvious to everyone reporting on the Komen-Planned Parenthood controversy. First, that the fight against breast cancer is unifying and completely uncontroversial, while the provision of abortion may be the most polarizing issue in the United States today. Second, that it’s no more “political” to disassociate oneself from the nation’s largest abortion provider than it is to associate with it in the first place. Third, that for every American who greeted Komen’s shift with “anger and outrage” (as Andrea Mitchell put it), there was probably an American who was relieved and gratified.
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How can we ever reach any kind of unity when people can’t even agree on those three, utterly provable and non-controversial facts?
The scariest thing is reading the comments at the bottom. Ross Douthat’s article was very fair and well-written by from the hue and cry in the comments, you would think he just said we should eat poor people. There are some people who would burn the whole world, deny even their own humanity, to defend abortion.
One of my “favourite” early comments (I didn’t read too many):
“Abortion is a legal medical service and has been for decades. Why should the MSM not be supportive of that position? You might as well complain that the MSM media is biased toward civil rights and biased against those who would want them repealed.”
This guy must be in the media already… He’s got the party line down.