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The outrage was almost certainly precipitated by Kirsten Powers\u2019 Thursday column for USA Today: \u201cPhiladelphia abortion clinic: We\u2019ve forgotten what belongs on page one.\u201d In that piece, Powers writes a scathing critique of major news agencies for ignoring the story. She begins:<\/p>\n

\u201cInfant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven\u2019t heard about these sickening accusations? It\u2019s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of the three major television networks in the United States had mentioned it. Nor had major newspapers like the Washington Post published any original articles on the trial. This despite the fact that testimony (and the Grand Jury report leading up to the trial) has been horrifying: teenagers being told to administer anesthetics without medical training; aborted infants stored in the refrigerator next to employees\u2019 lunches; accusations of preferential treatment for patients based on race; babies born alive who had their spines subsequently snipped by Gosnell and his staff; seventeen years of government, accrediting agencies, and hospitals looking the other way despite numerous complaints of medical negligence at the clinic.<\/p>\n

Following the publication of Powers\u2019 article, Mollie Ziegler Hemingway of GetReligion took to Twitter, directly asking reporters why they and their news agencies were ignoring the story. Other Twitter uses started doing the same. And pro-life agencies began organizing a \u201cTweetfest\u201d for Friday, asking people to highlight media blackout on the story by using the hashtag #Gosnell.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the post<\/a>, which includes links to the various articles.<\/p>\n

But, you know what?\u00a0 I bet Gosnell gets acquitted, or at least convicted of a far lesser crime that gets him no jail time, much less the death penalty that prosecutors are seeking.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"