Stephanie Gosk's report on the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial on the 1 May 2013 edition of NBC Nightly News wasted little time before emphasizing that Gosnell's clinic was "one of the only places in this low-income neighborhood in Philadelphia where pregnant woman could afford to go for abortions." Gosk's report came 44 days after the opening of the trial, and only after the jury had finished its first full day of deliberations.
Previously, the only time that a NBC journalist mentioned the murder case on-air was when Savannah Guthrie asked President Obama if he had been "watching the Gosnell trial....and do you think it animates a larger debate about abortion in this country" on the April17, 2013 edition of Today.
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.