Chicago Media Ignores African-American Rally Against Same-Sex Marriage

by Warner Todd Huston | January 24, 2011 12:46 pm

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that a rally held by a coalition of Chicago-area black pastors that gathered to warn Illinois against same-sex marriage and civil unions was ignored by the Old Media in Chicago. Still, as unsurprising as it it, it’s a bit galling that this event went unreported on.

The Illinois Family Institute posted a January 19 article[1] on the snubbing by the Old Media that charges the Chicago media with an anti-Christian bias. It’s nearly impossible to deny the charge, too.

The press conference was held to call upon Illinois to oppose SB 1716, a civil unions bill now being considered 9n the state capitol in Springfield. But their conference was completely ignored. Worse than ignored, some media outlets were there yet all stories were killed by the bosses back at the studios and newspapers from which they came. So, this story was not just ignored, it was suppressed.

As Julie Schmidt of BigJournalism.com[2] says: “Just think how widespread the coverage would have been had these African-Americans gathered to show their support for the bill. I dare say it would have been wall to wall.”

Indeed it would.