Hiding Facts For Sensationalism

Rene Sanchez of the Minneapolois Star Tribune proved a pillar of biased journalism in her recent report morality, pharmacists and birth control: If you don't tell the facts, you get a more sensational story.

Her story, "New arena in birth control battle," documents cases of pharmacists refusing to fill perscriptions for "birth control," without ever explaining what sort of birth control the pharmacists are concerned about.

I read the story twice and "morning after pill" or any of its pseudonyms appear nowhere in the story. Sanchez wants readers to believe pharmacists aren't filling perscriptions for run-of-the-mill birth control pills, to create a higher degree of outrage.

Why? Because in nearby Illinois and Wisconsin, moves are underway to force pharmacists to fill all prescriptions presented to them, and Sanchez and her paper want to support these efforts.