The Weekly: Media should equally cover major protests

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The Weekly: Media should equally cover major protests
March for Our Lives (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

ABC, CBS, and NBC spent almost a half hour covering the March for Our Lives on Saturday night, according to NewsBusters.

On Jan. 19, the same networks spent slightly more than two minutes on the March for Life.

The media should be ashamed.

Journalistic integrity demands honest reporting. While this does not always mean second-for-second coverage, reporting requires some semblance of fairness.

Like the March for Our Lives, the March for Life happened in Washington, D.C.

Like the March for Our Lives, the March for Life drew thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of people.

Like the March for Our Lives, the March for Life is led by the rising generation.

Unlike the March of Our Lives, the March for Life has consistently attracted enormous crowds for nearly 45 years. That merits more than two minutes of coverage.

With such undisguised biased coverage, it’s no wonder that America’s trust in media has dropped eight percentage points in the last year, according to Gallup.

The American audience deserves better.