5 Things You Should Know About the March for Life

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Friday, January 27, 2017

5. An Underreported Event?

Thousands of pro-lifers participate in the 2016 March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 22, 2016 | (Photo: The Christian Post/Samuel Smith)

Conservative entities and others have long accused mainstream media, especially Washington, DC-based outlets, of downplaying or even outright ignoring the March for Life event.

One article from the conservative website News Busters calculated that network TV news outlets gave the Women's March on Washington 129 times more coverage than last year's March for life.

"ABC, CBS and NBC spent at least one hour, 15 minutes and 18 seconds on the women's march. But for the 2016 March for Life, they devoted an embarrassing 35 seconds," stated the News Busters piece.

"This month, two similar events are happening in Washington, D.C. Both pertain to women. One attracted an estimated 500,000 Americans this year, the other boasts tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands marchers every year. But one main difference — a difference the media care about — is agenda: one is pro-abortion, the other is pro-life."

Accuracy in Media published a piece Wednesday stating that "liberal media rarely covers the annual March for Life" and that despite bringing large numbers of demonstrators every year to D.C. "it still does not get significant media coverage."

"One of the only stories from the media last year was a Washington Post article, which mentioned how inclement and snowy weather made it difficult to get activists to the District of Columbia," argued AIM.

"The New York Times did not refer to the march by its name, which was blasted by multiple conservative-leaning outlets. We at AIM could only find that the New York Times had only one 'March for Life' reference in their website's search engine, which was a piece from 1981."