There have now been seven videos released showing the sale of aborted baby body parts by Planned Parenthood. I have not watched the entire video series although I have listened to enough to make me feel very uncomfortable (and somewhat sick to my stomach) with what Planned Parenthood is doing. The stories coming out are gruesome, and I don’t understand how medical personnel can be so calloused in dealing with the life of an innocent newborn child.
It seems as if many Americans are totally unaware of this story. Yesterday, The Federalist posted an article providing a possible explanation for the ignorance of the American public. The article details the role of a news site called BuzzFeed.
The article states:
If you use BuzzFeed as your primary source of news, however, you’d know nothing about the story. The same goes for the video in which a top Planned Parenthood official said she needed a good price on aborted baby organs because, “I want a Lamborghini.” That little detail was also never reported. In fact, it’s been over a month since BuzzFeed published any standalone stories featuring details from newly released undercover videos.
Now we know why: last night, BuzzFeed’s senior health editor Casey Gueren received an award from Planned Parenthood for “media excellence.”
The article details the stories that received the award. Suffice it to say that they were not stories that most Americans over the age of twenty-five would have read.
The article at The Federalist also reports:
Journalists from several other organizations also received Planned Parenthood “Maggie” awards, named after Margaret Sanger, the racist, eugenicist, Hitler-supporting founder of Planned Parenthood.
This Yahoo! Health editor received an award just hours after she published this story about how those multi-state and federal investigations of Planned Parenthood are like, totally, not a big deal you guys.
…More than a dozen additional journalists also received awards yesterdayfrom the nation’s largest abortion provider and unborn baby organ harvester. It would appear that the only thing Planned Parenthood enjoys more than harvesting baby parts to sell is rewarding activists with bylines for their work in snuffing out news coverage before it even leaves the cradle.
We have reached the point where Americans need to expand their news sources to make sure they are getting the news. There are a number of good news cites on the Internet that I would recommend (this one included). I particularly like PowerLine Blog and Lucianne.com. We have reached to point where we need to educate ourselves constantly. It takes some time and effort, but our national conscience is worth it.