Media burying the lead on the radical Democrat agenda

Warren Henry:

Democracy Dies In Darkness When The Media Avoids Extremist Democrats

The election of Democrats is covered as extremely important and newsworthy, but what these same Democrats say and do once in power cannot be honestly reported.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the slogan of the Washington Post. Inspired in part by the legendary Bob Woodward, it fits nicely on a T-shirt (available in the paper’s merch shop for a mere 25 bucks). But it would be a mistake to assume the Post universally opposes the idea.

Following the defeat of an extreme pro-abortion bill in Virginia’s General Assembly, the Post published an article about the bill’s sponsor, titled: “Del. Kathy Tran was known for nursing her baby on the House floor. Now she’s getting death threats.” We are sadly at a point in history where it must be stated that Tran should not be receiving death threats. But it is a headline that prompted some gallows humor on the right....

It is a stretch to call the Post’s product a news story (even after it was substantially re-written without alerting readers that it was done). It reports Tran’s admission that the bill would allow for abortion to occur while a mother was in labor. It does not directly or fully quote her, which is relevant because the Post refers to outrage over an “edited video,” falsely insinuating her position had been misrepresented. (Nor is it the first time the media has falsely relied on such claims in defense of the abortion industry.)
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The features of the bill that caused it to fail do not appear until paragraph 15: “Tran’s bill would have removed the phrase ‘substantially and irredeemably’ when it comes to defining the risk a mother would face by continuing the [third-trimester] pregnancy. It also would have required just one physician to certify the need for the procedure, instead of three. And it would have allowed second-trimester abortions to be performed in a clinic, instead of a hospital.”

That is, under this bill, an abortion could occur based on the abortionist’s assessment of the woman’s future mental health, without any showing of severity.

Burying the substance of the bill this far into the story might have been defensible if the Post, or even other outlets, had previously reported on the bill. But the Post’s prior coverage was framed as “conservatives pouncing” on comments by Gov. Ralph Northam that not only defended the bill, but supported infanticide for babies born with deformities. In that story, the bill itself was summarized briefly in paragraph 19. Unsurprisingly, Northam’s inflammatory (and dishonest) comments were omitted from the background portions of the follow-up story on Tran.

While the Post’s coverage of the story is a caricature of media bias—the “conservatives pounce” jokes were all over social media before these stories ran—it must be said the Post did more than almost any other establishment media outlet. Virginia Democrats’ pro-abortion extremism was almost entirely suppressed outside conservative media.
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There are links in the original that may be of interest.  It is a good example of media bias when it comes to left-wing extremism.  If they do not think it is extreme, then why bury it deep in the story?  I suspect they bury it because they are uncomfortable defending such activity.