{"id":327,"date":"2011-01-25T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=327"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:03:38","slug":"media-coverage-of-yesterdays-march-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Media coverage of yesterday&#8217;s March for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This of course is only a partial listing. We will have our own photos and impressions posted in a&#0160;few days.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>NY Times<\/strong> paper addition had NO coverage we could find. However &#8211; their online edition did have a slide show (eight slides) which was quite good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2011\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/MARCH.html?scp=2&amp;sq=march%20for%20life%20&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_self\">Despite Cold Weather, Abortion Opponents Rally in Washington<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The usually awful <strong>&quot;On Faith&quot;<\/strong> section of the <strong>Washington Post <\/strong>had a good article and another slide show in the online edition. They pointed out that 27,000 youth attended the Washington DC Masses on Saturday, January 22nd, commemorating the actual date of Roe vs. Wade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/24\/AR2011012402577.html\" target=\"_self\">Thousands of abortion opponents rally in march on Mall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s <strong>FOX News <\/strong>coverage &#8211; a video &#8211; mostly on the politics of the issue. They&#0160;give an estimate of 100-200,000 participants and the results of national polling data showing a 50\/42 split for prolife vs. prochoice. A good two and a half minute video, with a short commercial at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wGfCz2Tqp94\" target=\"_self\">Pro-life Activists Sense Shift in Momentum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michelle Malkin had very good coverage on her blog &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2011\/01\/24\/the-march-for-life-2011\/\" target=\"_self\">The March for Life 2011: America\u2019s REAL rally to restore hope and sanity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her&#0160;posting includes the following quote, from the opening invocation, given by an African-American minister,&#0160;as well as a television screen shot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Washington DC \u2013 Pastor Luke Quinn, Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Frederick MD, asks: \u201cWhere is President Obama? Where is Jesse Jackson? Where is Al Sharpton?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This of course is only a partial listing. We will have our own photos and impressions posted in a&#0160;few days. The NY Times paper addition had NO coverage we could find. However &#8211; their online edition did have a slide show (eight slides) which was quite good. Despite Cold Weather, Abortion Opponents Rally in Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-march-for-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}