Posts Tagged ‘Des Moines Register’
How my newspaper covered the March for Life
I was pleasantly surprised by the coverage the Des Moines Register gave the March for Life in the morning’s paper. They ran a piece written by the U.S. Today which covered the top third of page four. The coverage was by and large good, except for two things …
Read More“Over-the-top” news coverage of the webcam abortion debate
The real difference between the Iowa Board of Medicine decision two years ago on webcam abortions and the most recent board overturning that decision is not Gov. Branstad’s appointed board. It’s the Register’s over-the-top, biased coverage …
Read MoreThe telemed abortion debate rages in Iowa
“Human life begins at conception, and the fact that different stages are given different names does not mean that some stages are not human …”
Read MoreA letter from Holly Patterson’s dad
I wrote a recent post titled “RU-486 is poison.” I made reference to a young woman, Holly Patterson, who died a decade ago as a result of taking the RU-486 human abortion pill. The piece appeared in the Des Moines Register on Friday. Her father responded:
Read MoreThe Des Moines Register publishes Quiner’s Diner essay
Readers of the Des Moines Register reacted sharply to my essay which appeared in the paper this morning. My favorite: “Quiner is a nut.”
Read MoreThe politics of market suppression
Why in the world did the POSSIBILITY of Obamacare ever arise? There seemed to be three driving forces …
Read More“Quiner intentionally and incorrectly misrepresents” human abortionists
I should be “ashamed and condemned for making hurtful accusations” toward human abortionists. These were the sentiments expressed by letter writer, Rick Smith, in this morning’s Des Moines Register. He was responding to my “love letter” to human abortionists that appeared in the Tuesday edition of the paper. Mr. Smith and fans of human abortion everywhere evidently had their feathers ruffled …
Read MoreThe Des Moines Register runs a Quiner’s Diner essay
By Tom Quiner Thanks to the Des Moines Register for running last week’s essay, “Transcending Decency.” The retitled piece (“Gosnell trial exposes myths of abortion”) appears in the morning edition of the Des Moines Register. The Register’s readers tend to be left of center in the political spectrum. It will be interesting to see how…
Read MoreObama breaks another campaign pledge
The media warned us about Mitt Romney. Lobbyists were chomping at the bit to make a “comeback” if Romney got elected …
Read MoreMSM offers tepid coverage of “House of Horrors”
Has the blackout been lifted? The biggest story burning up the blogosphere is the mainstream media’s (MSM) news blackout of Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s House of Horrors.
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