Washington Post on Gosnell Story: You did it too!

WaPo:

The charge of liberal media bias is perhaps undercut by the fact that a number of conservative media outlets — and conservative leaders — overlooked the story, too, until a flood of tweets and commentaries about it began late last week.

The Weekly Standard and the National Review, two leading conservative magazines, for example, hadn’t published anything on the trial, according to a search of the Nexis database. The New York Post’s conservative editorial board has written one commentary — an editorial lamenting the lack of coverage, which, although it doesn’t mention it, includes its own paper. The Washington Times has published five staff-written articles and guest commentaries on the matter, all focusing on the absence of press coverage.
Fox News has been the only consistent national TV source on the story, having run 11 news reports or commentaries on it over the past month.

The Post, New York Times, ABC,NBC,CBS, and CNN have long claimed a leadership role as to what is considered newsworthy. Despite losing audience to other outlets, they still collectively remain the largest source of news in the country.

By comparing their (in)actions to conservative opinion magazines like National Review and The Weekly Standard, along with a NY tabloid, WaPo concedes to what many of us already knew: That the mainstream media should no longer be relied upon for comprehensive news coverage. And that other than size, they are no different than any run of the mill blog.

But the MSM still claims status and privileges as news organizations with unique and superior standards and integrity others lack. And yet, here's The Washington Post comparing themselves to publications they would normally look down their noses upon.

So, we should at least commend them for finally admitting that they, and the rest of the dinosaur media aren't leaders of anything, and deserve less trust and admiration than they give Fox News. 

 Perhaps the press should give this story the same level of coverage it would if seven infants and a patient were shot to death in a doctor's office. Then we could have thousands of stories and editorials calling for 'reasonable restrictions' and 'commonsense laws' so as to 'prevent this tragedy from happening again.' We could also hear about how no one "needs" a partial birth abortion and that it's 'paranoid' to think anyone's trying to take away your right to an abortion. Of course, we'll also have fawning coverage of celebrities and politicians calling NARAL and Planned Parenthood murderers, and their members a bunch of backwards and violent morons.