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More Missouri Manipulation: The Media Spins the Story on SCNT. | Missouri Political News Service

More Missouri Manipulation: The Media Spins the Story on SCNT.

October 18th, 2007 by mopns · No Comments

By Cathy Ruse

Missouri media have a problem reporting the facts when it comes to human cloning and stem-cell research.

The Kansas City Star and reporter Kit Wagar have become notorious for their bias in this area, and now the editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show that they are not interested in a fair fight.

On Tuesday, they defended the outrageously misleading ballot language drafted by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. The measure at issue, offered by a grassroots group called Cures Without Cloning, would ban the act of creating cloned human embryos for research — conduct which was raised to the level of a constitutional right by a razor-thin margin in last year’s election. Read more…

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