NY Times editor says lack of Gosnell coverage isn't 'vast, left-wing media conspiracy

Margaret Sullivan, public editor for the New York Times, writes on her blog that a lack of news coverage of Dr. Kermit Gosnell isn't the result of "a vast left-wing media conspiracy"...

From Sullivan's blog:

I don’t think that editors and reporters got together and decided not to give the Gosnell trial a lot of attention because it would highlight the evils of abortion.

I do think that it wasn’t on their radar screen – and that it should have been. The murders of seven newborn babies, done so horrifically, would be no ordinary crime. Any suggestion, including mine on Friday, that this is just another murder trial is a miscalculation.

Judged on news value alone, the Gosnell trial deserves more coverage than it’s had, in The Times and elsewhere.

Gosnell is the Philadelphia doctor on trial for allegedly performing extreme, illegal late-term abortions.

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