[wagglebee]

It was not reported last Sunday, however, that three-quarters of the people who decide what appears on the front page of the New York Times are homosexuals, according to Richard Berke, the paper's National Political Correspondent, a longtime member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

This is a list that absolutely needs to be made public. I Can't help but wonder if Maureen Dowd is on it.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

In November, 1987, the homosexual magazine Guide published, “The Overhauling of Straight America,” by Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill. This article was a proposed blueprint by homosexual activists for transforming the social values of "straight" America. At the core of the program was a media campaign to change the way the average citizens viewed homosexuality by desensitizing them concerning homosexuals and homosexual rights.

Excerpt

GETTING ON THE AIR, OR, YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE.

Without access to TV, radio, and the mainstream press, there will be no campaign. This is a tricky problem, became many impresarios of the media simply refuse to accept what they call "issue-advertising" -- persuasive advertising can provoke a storm of resentment from the public and from sponsors, which is bad for business. The courts have confirmed the broadcaster's right to refuse any "issue advertising" he dislikes.

What exactly constitutes "issue advertising"? It evidently does not include platitudinous appeals to the virtues of family unity (courtesy of the Mormons) neither does it include tirades against perfidious Albion courtesy of Lyndon LaRouche); neither does it include reminders that a Mind-Is-a Terrible Thing to Waste (courtesy of the United Negro College Fund); neither does it include religious shows which condemn gay "sinners"; neither does it include condemnations of nuclear war or race discrimination--at least not in Massachusetts. Some guys get all the breaks.

What issue advertising does include these days is almost any communiqué presented openly by a homosexual organization. The words "gay" and "homosexual"' are considered controversial whenever they appear.

Because most straightforward appeals are impossible, the National Gay Task Force has had to cultivate quiet backroom liaisons with broadcast companies and newsrooms in order to make sure that issues important to the gay community receive some coverage; but such an arrangement is hardly ideal, of course, because it means that the gay community's image is controlled by the latest news event instead of by careful design--and recently most of the news about gays has been negative.

So what can be done to crash the gates of the major media? Several things, advanced in several stages.

START WITH THE FINE PRINT Newspapers and magazines may very well be hungrier for gay advertising dollars than television and radio are. And the cost of ads in print is generally lower. But remember that the press, for the most part, is only read by better-educated Americans, many of who are already more accepting of homosexuality in any case. So to get more impact for our dollars, we should skip the New Republic and New Left Review readers and head for Time, People, and the National Enquirer. (Of course, the gay community may have to establish itself as a regular advertising presence in more sophisticated forums first before it is accepted into the mass press.)

While we're storming the battlements with salvos of ink, we should also warm the mainstream up a bit with a subtle national campaign on highway billboards. In simple bold print on dark backgrounds, a series of unobjectionable messages should be introduced:

IN RUSSIA, THEY TELL YOU WHAT TO BE. IN AMERICA WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO BE OURSELVES... AND TO BE THE BEST.

Or

PEOPLE HELPING INSTEAD OF HATING--THAT 'S WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT.

And so on. Each sign will tap patriotic sentiment, each message will drill a seemingly agreeable proposition into mainstream heads - a "public service message" suited to our purposes. And, if heir owners will permit it, each billboard will be signed, in slightly smaller letters, "Courtesy of the National Gay Task Force" - to build positive associations and get the public used to seeing such sponsorship.

THE HOMOSEXUAL MANUAL

[little jeremiah]

Bears repeating:

"It was not reported last Sunday, however, that three-quarters of the people who decide what appears on the front page of the New York Times are homosexuals, according to Richard Berke, the paper's National Political Correspondent, a longtime member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association."

No surprise to us on FR.

[Stallone]

Arthur O. Shitburger is a Michael Moore propagandist with erectile dysfunction.

No wonder there are so many women looking to get laid by a real man - their Liberal boyfriends are too busy fondling each other.

Metrosexual males have done more for GOP male social status than Viagra.

[Grampa Dave]

Bumping re the Gay Activists who control the NY Slimes!

"three-quarters of the people who decide what appears on the front page of the New York Times are homosexuals!"

Not only do they push the Gay agenda, they work 24/7/365 to weaken America, families, Christians and Jews who believe.

That 3/4 stat is probably about the same in most big city liberal newspapers.

[lentulusgracchus]

I Can't help but wonder if Maureen Dowd is on it.

Well, a) if it's 75% of the front-page editors (editors! -- you mean, they need more than one just for page one? -- are gay, sure, you'd have to wonder about the rest of the staff.

But Dowd's a columnist, and her vita doesn't reek of lesbianism -- she's too Irish and too Catholic, and she writes like she's both. Which causes me to doubt she's a lesbian. More like a prickly 90's careerist feminist, needing a man but unwilling to admit it even for a millisecond.