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Canada National Broadcaster Reports One Million at Gay Pride - Ten Times Actual Size
TORONTO, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Organizers for the annual March for Life both in Ottawa and in Washington are accustomed to having the mainstream news media drastically under-report the size of the crowds. What seems to be a policy of media-mandated expansion or deflation of crowd size appears to be directly proportional to the event's rating on the political correctness scale: the more liberal the cause; the higher the crowd estimate. Among the most enthusiastic media exaggerators is the publicly funded Canadian national broadcaster, the CBC.
This weekend the annual "Gay Pride" parade was staged, with all the now-standard features including fully naked men, men dressed up in gear typical of sadomasochistic fetishists, and simulated sex acts in public. This annual celebration of sexual deviance has indeed been growing in popularity since its inception 25 years ago, but, perhaps in honour of the 25th anniversary or the impending same-sex marriage legislation predicted to pass in the next few days, the CBC has outstripped its usual enthusiasm over the homosexual agenda. In two early reports, on radio and television, Canada's national broadcaster reported that a million people had attended the event.
Campaign Life Coalition's Aidan Reid told LifeSiteNews.com he saw the CBC report on the evening news Sunday night. "When I saw they had reported the crowd at nearly ten times the actual number, it reinforced my belief that the CBC is not interested in reporting truthfully, but rather is simply a puppet of the radical homosexual lobby," said Reid.
It is not only the March for Life that gets the treatment. In April, when 20,000 people attended a rally in support of the traditional definition of marriage the Canadian media reported 4000. The phenomenon is not limited to Canadian socialist broadcasters, however. In Spain the weekend before last, approximately a million pro-marriage and family demonstrators chanted, "Later they will say, that we were only five or six," as they marched in the streets of Madrid. Sure enough, media there reported the 1.5 million-size crowd at about 166,000.
Sober heads have prevailed in Toronto, however, and now most news outlets seem to have agreed on the much more modest and believable estimate of 125,000 for the event.
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International Media Massively Under-Report Numbers at 1,000,000+ Spain Pro-Marriage Demonstration
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