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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 11, 2019, 01:31:58 pm
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Networks Ignore Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims Bullying Pro-Life Protesters
By Gabriel Hays | May 7, 2019 11:44 PM EDT
It takes one “smirk†from a conservative teen in a MAGA hat to generate a national news meltdown, yet prolonged verbal harassment from a Democratic state representative towards an older woman praying in protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic hardly gets any mainstream attention. Neither ABC, CBS, NBC nightly news programming paid any attention to Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims’ 8-minute plus video of him bullying a peaceful pro-life protester. The principal evening newscasts of Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision also failed to cover the matter.
While this media behavior is certainly not shocking — what self-aggrandizing mainstream journo would want to sell out a pro-choice lawmaker? — it is absolutely disgusting and betrays a horrific double standard.
Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2019/05/07/major-networks-ignore-pa-rep-david-sims-vile-abuse-pro-life (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2019/05/07/major-networks-ignore-pa-rep-david-sims-vile-abuse-pro-life)