MAKE MEDIA INDEPENDENT AGAIN

MAKE IRISH MEDIA INDEPENDENT AGAIN

There are some great journalists in the media, independent thinkers who want to find Truth. But their hands are tied, if they want to keep working.

In 1981, the National Union of Journalists adopted a prochoice policy. So any journalist who is a member of the union has to abide by that.

The NUJ has about 3,500 members in the Irish Republic. This is a large number for what is a small industry, given the population.

I do know that the media could make abortion unthinkable in – maybe three days! The evidence is all there. All they have to do is to make it known. A few hard-hitting articles. Photos.

The NUJ frame the debate around abortion, advising journalists what phrases to use, in what amounts to the marginalisation of prolife people. Like use ‘anti-abortion’ not ‘prolife’ unless it’s in the title of the organisation.

Irish media is too concentrated. The INM owns 40% of the major news outlets and is ‘a major threat to press freedom’ according to the Journal.ie October 14^th 2017

Some of the journalists are far too insulting! But even with this deadly serious subject one has to have a sense of humour. My favourite chuckle is courtesy of a senior journalist in the Irish Times, who has coined a new word:

‘ZYGOPATH’  I’m not sure what it means exactly, as he never said. I think he means prolife people like mé féin. Say it out loud!

Woman’s Magazines. Surely they want the best for women, and if they aren’t writing bad stories about abortion, then there are few to none.

Wrong. The content of most magazines can be largely directed by those companies that advertise in it. Who advertises in women’s mags? The fashion industry, the cosmetic industry. When woman become mothers, they don’t have money anymore to spend on themselves. And the Glamour business is particularly dependent on women feeling insecure about themselves. When a woman has a baby, she stops focusing on herself. She changes, becomes confident.

Freelance journalist Sue Ellen Browder used to write for Cosmopolitan and Ms, among others. After Teen Vogue printed an article suggesting what a reader might get her friend as a gift after an abortion, (Girl Power cap; F U uterus pin) Sue Ellen wrote an article for the Federalist exposing how, as a prochoice journalist, she too kept the rules.

 http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/28/magazines-like-teen-vogue-hard-sell-abortion-fill-pockets-big-companies/

For an eye-opening read on media bias, consult: https://bothlivesmatter.org/blog/abortion-news-compromised-journalism