Daily PatchCast: Gun And Ammunition Seized, Rally Over Planned Parenthood Funding, Loyola Health Center Open
A roundup of the region's news for March 8.
Here's a look at the news happening around you:
— Planned Parenthood and Pro-Life Groups Face Off at Rally Over Federal Funding
— Loyola Medical Center Opens in Burr Ridge
— Glock Handgun, 500 Rounds of Ammunition Seized in La Grange
— Customers Line Up for Paczkis at the Busy Bee
*Please note: The police car pictured in the third story is of a La Grange police car, but it was La Grange Park police that made the arrest. Patch regrets the mistake.
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Rita Diller
9:42 pm on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Why did you only cover Planned Parenthood at Geneva? The rally was organized by the Susan B. Anthony List, the women in the other large bus. They are on a tour of the country pushing to defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is following the pro-life bus around, tagging onto the pro-life rallies. Former U.S. Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave is on the pro-life bus, along with Lila Rose, who uncovered and videotaped the willingness of Planned Parenthood workers around the nation to cover up sex trafficking. Certainly these two women would have been more newsworthy than the Planned Parenthood person you interviewed, and would have been eager to give you an interview. You didn't even show a picture of their bus, though you focused on the pink Planned Parenthood bus. As a former newspaper editor, I am shocked to see such one-sided, sloppy, deceptive journalism.
Brendan Purkapile
9:49 am on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
This is Patch, they cover towns not the nation. Your perspective is one sided and stinks of partisan politics. Keep your propaganda to a minimum.
LAURA WOJCIK
9:53 am on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Me too. To not even give the other side a chance to make a statement is really unfair. Also Planned ParentHood can only give level one breast cancer exams which does not include mammograms, but they are one of the largest providers of abortion in America. They also do not offer any services to women who decide to keep there babies such as prenatal care.
Matthew Hendrickson
12:22 pm on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Hey guys,
Patchcast is a quick round-up of the top stories on Patch sites in the area. If you go to the story here: http://geneva.patch.com/articles/planned-parenthood-and-pro-life-groups-have-dueling-rally-in-geneva-over-federal-funding
I think you'll see that both sides were fairly represented in the full story.
Sabrina Wu
2:02 pm on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Hi everyone,
I'm the producer of the PatchCast that's generating this discussion. It certainly was never my intention to produce a one-sided story for the PatchCast roundup. After reading your comments and reviewing the show, I see why you felt that way. I used the only video available to me, but in hindsight, I should not have used it at all. You're right. Either both sides get video, or neither side does. I have removed the videotaped interview and adjusted the copy accordingly. Thank you.
Sabrina Wu, Editor
Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Patch