Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Can You Say "Biased"?


I don’t know if any one else caught some of the headlines on the main stream media about the study from Ms. Rosenbaum from John Hopkins University called "Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Nonpledgers."

Headlines like these:

Virginity Pledges Don't Stop Teen Sex," CBS News
"Virginity pledges don't mean much," CNN
"Study questions virginity pledges," Chicago Tribune
"Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds," Washington Post
"Virginity Pledges Fail to Trump Teen Lust in Look at Older Data," Bloomberg

If a person doesn’t know any better and just goes by the stories in the liberal media these headlines might be a very sad study for Christians, but if someone takes a closer look they will realize that the headlines and stories are COMPLETELY biased and untrue.

What none of the media is reporting, except for The Wall Street Journal is that the study “is comparing, teens who take a virginity pledge with a very small subset of other teens: those who are just as religious and conservative as the pledge-takers.”

Why is the liberal media so against reporting studies like this truthfully? I know this is done all the time, but I really hate that so many people tune into the media, catch snip-its and then repeat it like it’s gospel.

Is it just me, or does the liberal media have an agenda when it comes to Christianity? Ya think?

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