
CNN’s 7 pm Eastern hour program John King USA was the only program on Monday and the following morning on Tuesday that mentioned the March for Life in Washington, DC. Anchor John King mentioned the pro-life demonstration only in passing, and omitted crowd numbers and footage from the March. CNN.com’s write-up on the annual event downplayed the number of attendees as merely in the “thousands.”
King led his evening program with a brief about an Illinois court ruling that former Obama aide Rahm Emanuel was ineligible to run for Chicago mayor. After playing a sound bite from Emanuel, the CNN personality then gave moved on to the March for Life, and added illegal immigration to it as an “emotional issue:”


