This is a flashback. But given the recent hysteria and rampant bias, I thought we needed to be reminded of this.
1 posted on
09/04/2004 12:59:53 PM PDT by
Diago
To: Diago
http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3249&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport
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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-chiefs 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 whats 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 Berkes quotation received wide circulation in conservative circles but the original article was never posted on the Web.
LaBarberathen publisher of Lambda Report (a conservative newsletter that monitored the gay movement) and currently editor of the Culture & Family Reportattended 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 agowhen I started there 15 years agothe 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 Ive been there theres been a dramatic shift: I remember coming and wondering if there were any gay reporters there or whatever. Now its like, there are times when you look at the front-page meeting and
literally three-quarters of the people deciding whats 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 NLGJAs 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. |
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2 posted on
09/04/2004 1:05:28 PM PDT by
Diago
To: Diago
It's probably more than three quarters now. The sub-headline about the GOP convention in one paper last week was about how the GOP was bashing abortion and homosexuals - but anyone who actually watched the convention knows that neither one was even close to being a major emphasis in any speaker's speech.
3 posted on
09/04/2004 1:06:56 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
("With 64 days left, John Kerry still has time to change his mind 4 or 5 more times" - Rudy Giuliani)
To: Diago
I imagine the horizontal surface areas in the NYTimes building harbor more infectious organisms than an M.D.'s necktie.
5 posted on
09/04/2004 1:12:00 PM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(Senator Kerry is all rice, no shrapnel.)
To: little jeremiah; EdReform; scripter
6 posted on
09/04/2004 1:15:29 PM PDT by
Diago
To: Diago
...and the other quarter is always drunk.
8 posted on
09/04/2004 1:18:33 PM PDT by
brewcrew
To: Diago
Or, in the words of this apochryphal retort:
"Yes, I'm Gay, but I have an excellent dry cleaners."
10 posted on
09/04/2004 1:25:40 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(The enemy is among us; he is us; we know it, we dare not say it - someone will be offended.)
To: Diago
Thanks, I was trying to find this when the Tom Hays, the gay activist who hates GW and pretends to be a reporter got caught with the phoney boos article.
11 posted on
09/04/2004 1:34:56 PM PDT by
Grampa Dave
(https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets)
To: Diago
three quarters of the people deciding whats on the front page are not so closeted homosexuals.So? As rigorously scientific polls conducted by the Human Rights Campaign and the NY Times have documented, somewhere between 75-85% of the population is gay ;-)
To: Diago
["3/4 of the people deciding whats on front page are...homosexuals"] And it shows.
16 posted on
09/04/2004 2:55:21 PM PDT by
M007
To: Cacique; NYC GOP Chick; firebrand; rmlew
17 posted on
09/04/2004 10:10:07 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(You've gotta love living, because dying's such a pain in the a-s! --- FA Sinatra)
To: Diago
19 posted on
10/17/2008 5:38:54 PM PDT by
Diago
(The Truth About Margaret Sanger at http://margaretsanger.blogspot.com/)
To: Diago
IS IT TIME FREEPERS? ACE OF SPADES THINKS IT IS!
Re: Vetting the Media
Ace
A lot of people want to know why we shouldnt 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, Im sure some budding citizen journalists-detectives would be wiling to take a night a week following these bastards around, taking pictures.
The medias 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?
Ive 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 isnt 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. Its too ugly, too vicious.
Not anymore.
It is their own rule those who ask questions that harm ones preferred candidate must be hounded and harassed and humiliated until they are silenced.
If this is the rule they impose on everyday citizens, its time for everyday citizens to impose it on them.
Yes, this is where were headed. And while I used to greet the prospect with disgust, now Im 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
20 posted on
10/17/2008 5:41:30 PM PDT by
roses of sharon
(When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will put him to flight (Isaiah 59:19)
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