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Channel 4, Claire McCaskill, emergency contraception, KMOV, media bias, missouri, Political ads, Todd Akin
Refresh your memory and review the trio of ads dealing with emergency contraception for rape victims that Claire McCaskill just debuted. Then take a look at how the ads were reported by KMOV TV (Channel 4) in St. Louis (h/t Think Progress – transcript available there):
Probably just sloppiness, but this is the same station that took the opportunity when given a chance to interview President Obama to rudely quiz him about his supposed “excessive” vacations, a rightwing meme that had been well debunked long before the interview; dissed Occupy St. Louis; and went all-in to promote the Tea Party. Tell you something about the information fed to locals, perhaps?