Gage Cohen is a summer intern for CNSNews.com, and already he’s picking up CNS’ dishonest ways. Cohen writes in a May 31 article:
Planned Parenthood’s newly released ” 2015-2016 Annual Report ” says that the organization performed 328,348 abortions in the year that ended on Sept. 30, 2015, and received $554.6 million in “government health services reimbursements and grants”–money that came from U.S. taxpayers–in the year that on June 30, 2016.
Cohen conveniently — and dishonestly — omits the important fact that none of that “money that came from U.S. taxpayers” paid for any of those abortions because federal law prohibits it.
CNS revels in pushing that dishonesty.
Cohen similarly repeated right-wing talking points in a June 1 article, claiming that “The 2017 hurricane season begins today, June 1–a record 139 months after the last major hurricane made landfall in the continental United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
As we’ve pointed out, CNS narrowly defines this as a Category 3 hurricane that made landfall, which conveniently ignores Category 3 hurricanes that grazed the U.S. coast before weakening and making landfall as well as 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, which still caused substantial damage despite not being a Category 3 hurricane at landfall.
It looks like Cohen is well on his way to becoming a highly biased right-wing reporter. Congratulations, or something.