In February, 2004, Los Angeles Times arts critic Mark Swed submitted a review of a staging of a Richard Strauss opera. Swed called it an "incomparably glorious and goofy pro-life paean."

        However, on February 24, 2004, readers of the Times opened its pages to find Swed's words had been changed.

        "Anti-abortion"?? Needless to say, the opera, originally written in 1919, had nothing to do with abortion. When Swed wrote "pro-life," he meant something along the lines of "life-affirming" and "celebratory."

        The next day, the Times published the following correction:

        What happened? According to a Reuters news report, Swed says a "copy editor was adhering to a strict Times policy of banning the phrase 'pro-life' as offensive to people who support abortion."

        The editor went a little "too much by the rule book," an irked Swed added.

        Left-wing pundits, like Eric Alterman, have argued that progress has been made in recent years as far as the media delivering more balanced coverage of the abortion issue. Here is just one outrageous example that shows just how wrong guys like Alterman are.

 

TheMediaReport.com says ... "Eric ... that liberal media!"