Posted on 09/14/2006 12:04:14 PM PDT by bennyjakobowski
(AgapePress) - A conservative pro-family group is challenging Fox News Channel over an alleged $10,000 contribution it made to sponsor a conference last weekend for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA).
Americans for Truth, an organization formed to monitor and expose elements of the homosexual agenda in the nation's culture, says if Fox News did make this contribution, the supposed "fair and balanced" network needs to contribute equally to a conservative organization if its slogan is to have credence. Both the pro-family group and WorldNetDaily reported on the network's alleged contribution to NLGJA, which is listed on the homosexual journalists group's website.
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, describes NLGJA as an activist group that places a pro-homosexual spin on its news coverage. And that, he asserts, is reason enough why Fox should not be advancing the cause of that "lesbian and gay" organization.
"But if they did give $10,000 to the homosexual journalists," LaBarbera adds, "we ask them -- and I wrote Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes and asked him -- to give $10,000 to a pro-family organization. You can't just give to the homosexual activists when the country is divided over the question of gay rights."
A website editorial comment from NLGJA's president, Eric Hegedus, compares speaking to pro-family groups about homosexual issues to contracting white supremacist groups to discuss race relations. LaBarbera points to that as evidence that calls into question Fox's decision to support the pro-homosexual group.
The American's for Truth spokesman says Hegedus, who works for the Philadelphia Inquirer, has insulted pro-family Christians and conservatives by "saying if you're pro-family, that's like being a white supremacist -- like being in the KKK." LaBarbera calls this "an extremely offensive analogy" that shows NLGJA is not a journalists' group but is, in fact, an activist group.
"And if Fox is giving $10,000 to a gay activist group," LaBarbera asserts, "well then, they need to turn around and give $10,000 to a pro-family group." The whole incident, he contends, is a symptom of the larger problem of news media that claim to be neutral taking sides in the culture war over homosexuality.
LaBarbera made that request to Fox News' Roger Ailes in a letter he sent the network executive last week. To date, the Americans for Truth president says he is still waiting for a reply.
And he'll wait and wait and wait until hell freezes over.
Roger had to keep Shep Smith happy
"Gay Journalists"?? wow..the bottom of civilizations pecking order. They should hold their ainual conference somewhere in the Middle East.
They must be under the impression that Fox News is a conservative news outlet.
LOL! Did this joker learn how to do shakedowns from Jesse Jackson, or did Jesse learn it from him?
Why can't these corporate people let the fags and lesbos die? Why do they insist on encouraging them?
Not just Fox...Walmart, Bud, Ford...
Shep Smith, same name I was thinking too
""And if Fox is giving $10,000 to a gay activist group," LaBarbera asserts, "well then, they need to turn around and give $10,000 to a pro-family group." "
Oh, I'd be willing to bet that Fox News has a few gay journalists working for it, too. That's why they sponsored this thing.
Is there an organization of Christian journalists. They should ask Fox for $10,000, too. I'm sure Fox would be happy to give it to them, especially of any of them worked for Fox.
"Gay Journalists"?? wow..the bottom of civilizations pecking order.
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gay civil attorneys?
I think this is a good move. They have put the press in a difficult position: should they defend Fox News? Or defend the bias charge from Americans for Truth?
If nothing else, they've gotten a conversation started. If they are successful, then they can turn their sights on the rest of the media. They wouldn't be able to say why don't you sue Fox News? They gave the money too...
isn't this what jesse jackson does?
"isn't this what jesse jackson does?"
If you are referring to shakedowns, then Yes! But in this case it's a sodomite cause, and he only sticks his beak in there if it's pertains to race.
FNC giving $10,000 to homosexual journalists amounts to less than a dollar apiece.
Who is to say they haven't? Have they bothered to check, or are these people just running amok making claims so they can get a piece of the "action"? Did they go to Fox first and request a donation or did they demand a donation based on the donation made to the other group? From the beligerant tone, I bet it was the latter and if so, I wouldn't blame Fox at all for ignoring them.
"Any proof of that, or just more uninformed idle speculation on your part?
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No, I have no proof of that. However, I would expect that Fox News would be happy to donate to a conference of Christian journalist. I know of no such organization that holds conferences, but if there were one, I'm sure Fox News would donate $10K to them. It's a piffling sum. Why would they not?
"So should we boycott Fox News? Or is boycotting Ford enough?"
Actually, I believe you must now boycott virtually every government agency and corporation, since all appear to include homosexuals as real people.
I think it's OK to support the AFA and other such organizations, though. As long as they fight against all other organizations who don't villify homosexuals, I think they're OK.
I'd send a big donation to them all tonight, if I were you.
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