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Brian Stelter’s Silence About Gosnell

According to grand jury testimony, abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell and his staff killed numerous babies after they were born alive. His employees couldn’t estimate how many times they did this 1/

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https://twitter.com/gosnellmovie/status/1040273663772315648?s=21

because it was a “standard procedure”. The trial commenced in 2013. When the *media* maintained a virtual blackout about the shocking, lurid Gosnell trial, the (at the time) NYT *media* reporter @brianstelter busied himself with the "Robin Roberts 2/
getreligion.org/getreligion/20…

Update,” "A Top Producer Leaves ‘Katie’ for CNN,” "At Fox News, Less Attention Paid to Gun Debate Than Elsewhere," and "A Pulitzer Prize, but Without a Newsroom to Put It In.” The NYT did note the start of the trial. Then 4 weeks later Trip Gabriel 3/
nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/…

finally wrote the NYT’s first, modest length story about the trial; Trip also noted that regular media ignored the trial until social media forced acknowledgement.
NYT media reporter @brianstelter had written nothing about this huge story of a media blackout. When questioned 4/

by Mollie Hemingway about this he referred to Trip’s story. When Hemingway noted this *media* blackout was a huge story and Trip’s discussion wasn’t much, NYT *media* reporter @brianstelter’s response was, “I'm not sure what I could write that hasn't been written”. Wow. 5/

This is the grand jury report. 7/
cdn.cnsnews.com/documents/Gosn…

Side note regarding an ”egregiously inaccurate” lede. Mollie Hemingway noticed that Trip wrote in her story that Gosnell was charged with “killing seven viable fetuses (all the statute of limitations and physical evidence would allow) 8/
getreligion.org/getreligion/20…

by “snipping” their necks with scissors...”. Actually he was “accused of delivering children - living, newborn babies - and then snipping their necks.” 9/

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