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MSNBC turns pro-choice into 'abortion backer'

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MSNBC turns pro-choice into 'abortion backer'

People who support women's right to choose are really just the abortion lobby --or so an MSNBC headline would have you believe.

In a particularly fatuous faux-pas, the network chopped up a Washington Post headline, leaving out the key word "rights" (the original headline was "Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee.") MSNBC turned it into "Abortion backers get reassurances on nominee."

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know any abortion backers. But for what it's worth, as an editor, I know of the temptation to shorten headlines to get them to fit. But I'll be damned if I turn pro-choice advocates into abortion lobbyists.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/msnbc-turns-pro-choice-into-abortion-backer/

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