Walk For Life West Coast asks for help to end the media blackout Joanna Dasteel SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Walk for Life West Coast is demanding to be seen and heard and in the mainstream media. This year, Walk for Life organizers are asking participants to take to the “twittersphere” to “end the media blackout.” Saturday will be the tenth year pro-lifers have taken to the streets of San Francisco and,...

Walk for Life Twitter Campaign Hopes to Enlighten Mass Media Two of the annual occurrences every January are the enormous pro-life events around the country and the mass media’s recurring failure to report on them accurately or at all. This year the Walk for Light West Coast is poised to use social media to “bring light to those in darkness.” On January 22, the Facebook page of the Walk for Life West Coast announced: “Since the media is...

This year’s Walk for Life West Coast outreach, our ‘Abortion Hurts Women’ banners on Market Street, have certainly generated a lot of interest. Here is a partial list of media organizations which have, to date, reported on our banners:   ABC KGO-TV News California Catholic Daily  California Catholic Daily  Catholic News Service, via Catholic Review  Catholic Philly Catholic San Francisco  Christian Post KCBS Radio Life News ...

Today KGO TV, San Francisco’s ABC affiliate, reported on the resolution introduced by San Francisco Supervisor David Campos and six of his colleagues which would put the supervisors on record as opposing the Walk for Life West Coast’s now-famous “Abortion Hurts Women” banners.  Further, the resolution would “review the criteria” for accepting banners on public property. The segment opened with the sentence...

San Francisco’s famous photojournalist Zombie covered the Walk for Life this year.  On February 14, Zombie also covered the “One Billion Rising” demonstration, also held at Civic Center Plaza. His coverage gave an excellent exposure of media bias. Here are some of his photos, with his commentary: “A little lesson in photo editing:     From the stage, at a certain angle, one could take a photo encompassing the entire...

That’s what Walk for Life West Coast co-founder Dolores Meehan said today in an article covering the Walk in California Catholic Daily. Dolores was observing that even if the mainstream media does not cover the Walk, it is still there, as some drivers found out. Apostolic Nuncio, 50,000 Pro-Lifers at Walk for Life West Coast “You can avoid the truth, but you can’t avoid the traffic!” On Saturday, January 26, an estimated...