Dr. Kermit Gosnell, M.D.

[dales]

Notice the prancing baby on the logo of the abortion mill (it must have been one that the monster abortionist could get to, that day.)

PS - - - I just notice the sign for "dental care". I hope this muderous son of a bitch doesn't practice dentistry too. Jeezuz, he'll probably lob your jaw off while trying to fill a cavity.

[Lord Jim]

Note that the above story is from over 2 years ago, when the indictment of Gosnell came down. (So much for the canard that this case wasn't covered in the news media until recently.)

It always hands me a laugh when someone around here will point out that a particular story hasn't gotten the kind of national media coverage that it's newsworthyness would indicate it should receive, and then someone else digs up some story from some local source or some obscure periodical, and jumps up and says, "See! See! It has been covered! it's a canard to claim it hasn't been!"

As if that sort of thing is in any way remotely comparable to regular and repeated coverage on broadcast nightly news, or on the cable news networks, or major national print journalism (like the NY Times, The Washington Post, The WSJ, Time, Newsweek....you know, the sort of coverage the murder of the abortion doctor got)

With one exception, I'm sure there isn't a single poster on this board who is really ignorant enough that they don't understand the difference....It's disingenuous...

[Joe Guy]

If this story hasn't gotten national attention, who is to blame?

That's dgs49's point isn't it? It's the liberal media's fault, right?

And it is because those on the left don't want the rest of the world to know that this happened.

Never mind the fact that what this doctor did doesn't support an argument against legal abortion. It is very likely he would have been doing what he did even if abortion were illegal.

Of course, people like dgs49 will attempt to twist it into an argument against pro choice and blame all liberals for what this doctor did.

I'm surprised he didn't blame the actions of this doctor on Barack Obama. Or maybe he assumes anyone with any intelligence already knows it's Obama's fault.

[dales]

[Econoline]

It always hands me a laugh when someone around here will point out that a particular story hasn't gotten the kind of national media coverage that it's newsworthyness would indicate it should receive, and then someone else digs up some story from some local source or some obscure periodical, and jumps up and says, "See! See! It has been covered! it's a canard to claim it hasn't been!"

I didn't think that a national, Pulitzer Prize-winning source like ProPublica would be seen as "local" or "obscure" but I guess that's just me...

[Grim Reaper]

It always hands me a laugh when someone around here will point out that a particular story hasn't gotten the kind of national media coverage that it's newsworthyness would indicate it should receive, and then someone else digs up some story from some local source or some obscure periodical, and jumps up and says, "See! See! It has been covered! it's a canard to claim it hasn't been!"

I guess these guys are all obscure:

CNN.
The New York Times.
The Washington Post.
The Wall Street Journal.
TIME.

[Lord Jim]

Grimmy, all of those stories link to pieces that have been written in the last two weeks...

Which kind of validates my earlier point:

I'm pretty plugged in to a wide range of news sources, and I heard about this case for the first time about a week and a half ago...

And it's not like it isn't newsworthy; an abortion doctor being tried on multiple homicide charges, ( and not in some "Bible belt" state that has re-defined "homicide" in abortion cases; legitimate, old fashioned homicide charges in a liberal Eastern city) should have been big news from the get go...

Compare the press coverage of this story to the coverage of the abortion doctor who was murdered a couple of years ago...there is no comparison; the coverage was "wall to wall"...

I'm not trying to trivialize or minimize what happened in that case...it was reprehensible, and I'm on the record as supporting the death penalty for the guy who did it...but this story was every bit as newsworthy, and it hasn't gotten anywhere near the same kind of coverage...

And:

As if that sort of thing is in any way remotely comparable to regular and repeated coverage on broadcast nightly news, or on the cable news networks, or major national print journalism (like the NY Times, The Washington Post, The WSJ, Time, Newsweek....you know, the sort of coverage the murder of the abortion doctor got)

Your links pretty much prove my point...

[Grim Reaper]

Or something else came by and was a bigger story to cover. The media likes to focus on one big story at a time. The abortion doctor lost out, and now he's old news.

Not everything is a conspiracy to cover up inconvenient facts, sometimes it's just simple greed over what draws the most people to the news.

[Andrew D]

Well, how about ABC, the Associated Press, CBS, CNN, and USA Today? All from more than two years ago:

The Associated Press and CBS from 20 January 2011.

ABC from 25 January 2011.

CNN from 2 March 2011.

The Associated Press and USA Today from 4 March 2011.

Looks like national news coverage from early on to me ....

[oldr_n_wsr]

I know I didn't hear about until a few weeks ago and I read the paper daily. (Newsday, not a national like the WSJ or NYT, and I don't watch nightly news)

[Gob]

A Philadelphia doctor has been convicted of the first-degree murders of three babies delivered and killed with scissors in late-term abortions.

Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, was acquitted on another charge of killing a fourth baby, who let out a whimper before he cut its neck, prosecutors said.

He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter of an adult patient who died of an overdose.

The case was seized on by both sides in the US debate over abortion.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Gosnell.

He performed thousands of abortions over a career spanning three decades. Officials said his medical practice earned him about $1.8m (£1.1m) a year.

[dales]

What a monster - hope he rots in prison (without a whimper).