Missouri: NBC’s Tibbles Repeatedly Leaves Embryo Out of ‘Stem Cell Research’ Story

Wednesday's Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on November 8, 2006

One of the most routine (and inaccurate) tics of news coverage of Missouri’s cloning amendment and other medical-research stories is to describe the controversy over embryo-destroying stem cell research as simply a fight over “stem cell research.” To declare that a pro-life politician is “against stem cell research” is quite inaccurate (since they favor research on adult stem cells and from umbilical cord blood). But [NBC correspondent] Kevin Tibbles did that twice this morning to Sen. Jim Talent on Today, and never once even used the word “embryo”  or “embryonic” to describe the specific human lives being destroyed in the research process.

 

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