Welcome To The War of Words!
A war is being waged in newsrooms around the globe. The battlegrounds are the nightly news, newspaper headlines, radio reports, and web sites from which we, the world population, get our news. It's a war for civilization. It's a war for our very survival. It's a War of Words!
With just a few words, a single news report can frame the national debate. Are you anti this? Are you pro that? How do you feel about those corrupt politicians? All too often people accept the information they're given without a second thought. The vast majority accept the frame in which the news is painted. At least, until now.
This is one of the tools in your intelligence agency. A tool which will provide you with a report from the front lines in the War of Words.
Have you ever wondered...do news agencies more frequently use the words pro-life or anti-abortion? Now you can find out!
What you see here are the number of times major news outlets have used the words "pro life" versus the number of times they've used "anti abortion." The first thing to note is that the sum of occurrences is quite high, nearly 33,000 for the NY Times. That tells us we can be more confident in the trend.
Do we see a trend? Of course we do!
Are you shocked that the NY Times uses the word "anti abortion" at a demonstrably higher rate than "pro life?" Almost two to one, in fact. ABC uses "anti abortion" at a dramatically higher rate. I wonder how the NY Times and ABC might justify these obvious trends.
A logical extension to this investigation would be to compare "pro abortion" with "pro choice." Or perhaps "pro choice" with "anti life." Anyone willing to place bets as to how those trends look?