THE NEW YORK TIMES AND GAYS ["3/4 of the people deciding what’s on front page are...homosexuals"]

At the recent New York Times annual meeting, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. turned in another amazing performance, acting ignorant about the paper’s pro-gay bias that is becoming a national embarrassment. A year ago we had raised the issue of Jesse Dirkhising, the 13 year-old boy who was raped and murdered by two homosexuals in Arkansas in September 1999. The media’s general failure to cover the murder stands in sharp contrast to the massive coverage of the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student in Wyoming. The Times hadn’t published a word on the Dirkhising case.

A year later, nothing had changed. In fact, when Cliff mentioned Dirkhising’s name again, Sulzberger still acted like it didn’t ring a bell. The Times’ failure to cover the case was mentioned by John Leo of U.S. News & World Report in a recent column in which he said, "Since the murder, not one story about the Jesse Dirkhising case has appeared in the New York Times." Andrew Sullivan of the New Republic, who is himself gay, told John Leo that the New York Times would rather go out of business than report the Dirkhising story.

This reflects a hard pro-gay bias. I told Sulzberger that Richard Burke, his national political reporter, has said openly, publicly, that homosexuals are now dominating the coverage of the New York Times. Specifically, here’s his quote: "There are times when you look at the front page meeting and literally three quarters of the people deciding what’s on the front page are not so closeted homosexuals." I asked Sulzberger to comment on the paper’s pro-homosexual bias, and whether this is responsible for suppressing the Jesse Dirkhising story.

http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3249&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport

Just How ‘Gay’ is The New York Times? Ask Richard Berke 2/5/2003
By Peter LaBarbera

Original Story Exposed ‘Gay’ Influence at Nation's Most Influential Newspaper

CFI Media Accountability Project

Editor-in-chief’s note: The following is the original story from the now-defunct Lambda Report that reported a comment by New York Times national correspondent Richard Berke that “literally three-quarters of the people deciding what’s on the front page [of the Times] are not-so-closeted homosexuals.” Berke, a homosexual, was speaking at an April 12, 2000, reception sponsored by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). The story and Berke’s quotation received wide circulation in conservative circles but the original article was never posted on the Web.

LaBarbera—then publisher of Lambda Report (a conservative newsletter that monitored the “gay” movement) and currently editor of the Culture & Family Report—attended the meeting where Berke made the comment. Recently, LaBarbera received an e-mail from a third party that contained comments from an NLGJA official disparaging the story. (However, the official did not dispute Berke's “75 percent” remark.) In the interest of accuracy, here is the original article.

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Just How Gay Is The New York Times?

Reprinted from the Lambda Report on Homosexuality

April-May 2000

The pro-homosexual metamorphosis at The New York Times has advanced so far that on any given day, three-quarters of the people who decide what goes on the front page are “not so closeted homosexuals,” according to Richard Berke, the Times’ National Political Correspondent.

Berke, a longtime member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLFJA), made the following comments at a 10th anniversary reception for the group April 12 in Washington, D.C.:

“This is at a newspaper where not so long ago—when I started there 15 years ago—the department heads were asking for lists of the gay reporters on different sections so they could be punished in different ways. So things have really changed at the newspaper. Since I’ve been there there’s been a dramatic shift: I remember coming and wondering if there were any gay reporters there or whatever. Now it’s like, there are times when you look at the front-page meeting and … literally three-quarters of the people deciding what’s on the front page are not-so-closeted homosexuals. … [It is] a real far cry from what it was like not so long ago.”

Berke was one of the speakers at the NLGJA’s “View from the Top” reception, held at the National Press Club April 12. Lambda Report reporter Peter LaBarbera attended the event, which was sponsored by America Online Inc., USA Today, The Washington Post, and CBS News. The NLGJA is currently engaged in a campaign to raise its membership to 2,000 by the end of the year.

IS IT TIME FREEPERS? ACE OF SPADES THINKS IT IS!

Re: “Vetting” the Media
—Ace

A lot of people want to know why we shouldn’t begin “vetting” the media — and by “vetting,” I do in fact mean vetting. I mean starting a fund to put detectives on them and begin outing them, one by one:

In the closet.

Hits his wife.

Messing with her editor.

Stoned out of his mind on coke half the time.

Etc.

And to reduce costs, I’m sure some budding citizen journalists-detectives would be wiling to take a night a week following these bastards around, taking pictures.

The media’s position that Joe the Plumber who merely asked a question must be “vetted” out of existence certainly supports the full-blown “vetting” of them.

After all, far more turns on the questions they ask and... refuse to ask, more importantly.

Will we do this?

I’ve had angry phases where I was within inches of proposing just this. Even starting a corporation with limited liability protections to do so.

It may be time.

But not now. There are only two weeks left. The media isn’t changing. They are in the tank for Obama; this is the full-court press. If we “got” one or two of these bastards by election day, what effect? None.

However, I have been loathe to even post such a notion in the past. It’s too ugly, too vicious.

Not anymore.

It is their own “rule” — those who ask questions that harm one’s preferred candidate must be hounded and harassed and humiliated until they are silenced.

If this is the rule they impose on everyday citizens, it’s time for everyday citizens to impose it on them.

Yes, this is where we’re headed. And while I used to greet the prospect with disgust, now I’m comfortable with it.

It is their own “rule.”

They will have to live by it, same as all of us.

Joe the Plumber was the last straw.

He was the last “freebie.”

Posted by Ace at 05:37 PM

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