Journalists Must Donate To Anti-Choice Organization In Order To Cover Palin’s Speech

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/29/palin-media-anti-choice/


Today, Sarah Palin will be speaking at a fundraiser for the Austin-based Heroic Media, a “faith-based” anti-choice organization that seeks to reduce the number of abortions “by creating a Culture of Life through television, billboard and internet advertising.” As part of its anti-choice media strategy, Heroic Media airs television commercials that “encourage viewers to learn more about and rethink the Life issue.” The group’s Internet strategy tries to direct Google users to an anti-choice website:

Heroic Media utilizes an online strategy to purchase top listings on search engines, such as google, so when teens “google” the word “abortion,”… “I think I’m pregnant,” … or “terminate pregnancy,” one of the top web sites they’ll see is our partner web site http://www.teenbreaks.com

Teenbreaks.com provides information about abortion, communicating with parents, adoption, cutting and more.

As Indecision Forever notes, the fact that Teenbreaks.com provides “information” on “cutting” is a giveaway that it isn’t interested in providing women with the best possible facts about their reproductive rights: “Cutting, that’s right, because self-mutilation has everything to do with handling an unplanned pregnancy.”

But in order to cover Palin’s speech, the Austin-American Statesman reports that journalists will have to make a contribution to Heroic Media:

Restrictions: Heroic Media will try to prohibit video and audio recordings of Palin’s appearance, and news organizations wishing to cover her speech must buy a ticket, the proceeds of which will go to Heroic Media.
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[blogslut]

1. Then, hopefully, the signifigant media will stay away in droves

I can hope, can't I?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Here's a question. What real journalist would even want to cover a Palin anti-choice speech?

For what purpose?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Hey Sarah, jow's that "FREEDOM CHOICEY thingy" working out????!!!

Oh. Not so well, eh? You and your pals talk about them enough but you don't really believe in them.
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