Even though all charges were dropped against the pair of undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood's alleged practice of harvesting and selling aborted baby parts, you're not likely to hear about it from the same news organizations that touted the indictments when they were first handed down.
As it turns out, some of America's top media outlets have a pattern of overblowing news items that paint the abortion industry in a favorable light, while burying or even ignoring news stories when the tables are turned.
The Federalist's Mollie Hemmingway wrote, "Isn't it interesting that our media always seem to be aware of stories that are helpful to the pro-choice movement but completely or mostly ignorant of stories that aren't helpful to the pro-choice movement?"
One year ago, journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, with the Center for Medical Progress, released a number of undercover videos in which the two posed as prospective customers discussing with various Planned Parenthood executives the harvesting and purchase of aborted baby parts.
The videos led to public outcry, causing Planned Parenthood to discontinue the practice of taking money for aborted fetal body parts and leading Congress to investigate.
But the two undercover journalists were indicted by a Texas grand jury in January for the methods they used to obtain the damaging undercover footage. Specifically, they were charged with using fake IDs and buying fetal organs.
This July, all charges against the pair were dropped.
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the indictments were literally front page news. But when the charges were dropped...silence.
According to the Federalist, The New York Times reported Daleiden's indictment on page 1, above the fold, the most prominent position in the paper.
The headline read, "Texas Charges Abortion Foes in Video Case," and the story contained more than 1,200 words. The very next day, two more stories appeared in the same paper on the same topic, an editorial headlined, "Vindication for Planned Parenthood" and a news piece headlined "Indictment Deals Another Blow to G.O.P. Campaign Against Planned Parenthood."
Then on June 14 when one of the charges against Daleiden was dropped, The New York Times completely ignored the news item.
More than a month later when all of the charges against Daleiden were dropped, the paper informed its readers of the development with only one, short, 800-word article buried on page 18.
Likewise, the Federalist details a similar scenario at The Washington Post, citing several pro-abortion news items detailing the indictments featured prominently in the publication.
However, a Washington Post reader would likely not have ven noticed when the charges were dropped as that news was hidden in a mere 17 sentences in the Post's national news round-up provided by The Associated Press.