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This week on CounterSpin: Some are wondering if the fatal shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino–along with a chart in the Washington Post showing that the year so far has included more mass shootings than days–might be the push corporate media need to stop covering gun control as a “culture war” issue on which “some say/others differ,” and move toward approaching it as an urgent public health concern.
A similar shift seems called for on abortion–which corporate media treat as, first and foremost, a “debate”–as though it can’t be the subject of straight reporting. But if media’s takeaway from the violent murders of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, by a man reportedly ranting about “baby parts,” is that “both sides” need to tone down their rhetoric, then women and women’s reproductive rights will be taking a step backward.
We’ll discuss the broader context for the Colorado Springs killings and how to move forward on reproductive justice with Jodi Jacobson, editor-in-chief of RH Reality Check.
And first, as usual, we’ll take a look back at the week’s press, including selective reporting on civilian deaths, Argentine elections and a forgotten massacre in Paris.
This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission from FAIR.