Networks Defend ‘Spirited,’ ‘Unfazed’ PP Pres. in Coverage of ‘Five-Hour Interrogation’

Curtis Houck | September 29, 2015
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Hours after Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testified Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee concerning the videos that have embroiled the abortion provider in scandal over the selling of aborted baby parts, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC rushed to the defense of the “unfazed” and “spirited” Richards as she “endured a five-hour interrogation” by the GOP.

Using language that was likely not employed to describe, say, hearings involving tobacco and auto companies, ABC neglected to show a back and forth between Richards and a member of Congress while all three painted Planned Parenthood as harmless providers of “health screenings, birth control, and breast exams” for millions of women annually.

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