Canadian Media Drives Another Nail in Its Coffin

ABC is becoming a cheerleader for Obama's agenda (ABC Under Fire for Hosting Obama Healthcare “Infomercial”), yet it wonders why its news show ratings are dropping. NBC newscasters worship at Obama's feet, the NY Times has again & again been caught in not reporting accurately, I could go on & on. What they don't want to face is why people are leaving them is that what they are doing isn't reporting the news. & it isn't just in the USA. Up in the Great White North it looks like the media there is following suit.

Canadian Pro-Life Leaders Dismayed by Post Article's Attempt to Divide, Undermine Larger Movement

By Steve Jalsevac VANCOUVER, BC, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada's National Post newspaper ran a front page article on Saturday June 13, titled, "Born Again, Anti-abortion groups try a gentler approach." The article, which quoted leaders of two recently formed pro-life groups, as well as past Reform Party leader Preston Manning, is being criticized as an attempt by the Post to use the new groups to divide and weaken the movement by denigrating the efforts of the entire pro-life movement over the past 40 years.
One of those quoted, Yvonne Douma of Signal Hill, writes in a recent email to pro-life leaders that, contrary to the article's author Charles Lewis', "neither I nor the Signal Hill Board believes that working to change the law is a "waste of time". These were the writer's words, not mine." She adds that although her organization's mandate is not to change the law, "Other organizations are doing a fine job of dealing with the law." Leaders of Campaign Life Coalition, the national pro-life political organization, have expressed dismay with the article's negative and badly informed presentation of the multi-faceted efforts of Canada's many pro-life groups since the abortion law was loosened in 1969. They also note that Lewis's characterization of the positively presented new "third-way approach" as one that has the "moral backing of politicians as diverse as Barack Obama" and Preston Manning, is a giveaway of the strong bias of the article.
CLC national organizer, Mary Ellen Douglas, emphasized to LifeSiteNews that "no informed, genuinely pro-life person could see Barack Obama as being anything other than an abortion extremist." Douglas continued, "The fact that Charles Lewis would indicate that Obama, the most pro-abortion president in US history, supports a new third-way approach against abortion, reveals either Lewis's heavy bias or profound naivete and ignorance of the history and facts of the abortion issue."
As for the Post article's references to Preston Manning and his quotes to Lewis, John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition BC, was incensed at them. The article refers to a speech by Manning at a recent Signal Hill dinner. Hof, who attended the event, wrote a commentary immediately afterwards to express his dismay over the speech. The commentary is published today in LifeSiteNews. The Born Again article is especially being criticized for its belittling of efforts to change laws and ignorance of the historical necessity of law changes for other major civil rights movement such as the anti-slavery and US civil rights movements.
CLC's Douglas was dismayed that her 45-minute interview with Lewis resulted in only two brief paragraphs in the lengthy article, with one sentence missing a crucial context. Douglas' was quoted stating that "Laws don't change the heartless but they restrict the heartless." She complains that Lewis was told this was a direct quote from Martin Luther King Jr., but the article gave the impression that those were Douglas's words. She also notes that the article's dismissal of all efforts to change laws is completely contradicted by the pro-abortion movement's overwhelming emphasis and success in advancing abortion rights through judicial and politically driven legislative changes funded by many millions of dollars.