Scandal: The New York Times is on the hunt, seeking the biggest prey since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon. The Gray Lady wants to sink her claws into the pope.
Posted on 04/09/2010 5:36:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scandal: The New York Times is on the hunt, seeking the biggest prey since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon. The Gray Lady wants to sink her claws into the pope.
The Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times Co., won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for its investigative reporting on sexual abuse of minors by priests. Anything the Times does now as a follow-up would be "been there, done that" — unless the paper managed to implicate Pope Benedict XVI.
The problem, however, for the newspaper that thinks of itself as "All the News That's Fit to Print" is that this isn't, as the Times coverage would have us believe, a story about an age-old institution being exposed as corrupt from the bottom all the way to the top.
The real story is the American left's agenda to undermine all traditional institutions in this country, with establishment media outlets like the Times and Newsweek leading the feeding frenzy.
William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, describes the politics of the thirst for papal blood: "Issues like abortion, gay marriage and women's ordination — that's what's really driving them mad, and that's why they are on the hunt. Those who doubt this to be true need to ask why the debt-ridden Times does not spend the same resources looking for dirt in other institutions that occurred a half-century ago."
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the MSM like common dung beetles....wander aimlessly, head in the sand....moving backward...while pushing their crap and hoping it sticks to something.....
There is no low to low for them to go in order to try to get someone, anyone, to read their rag. So now they set their sights on the Pope in the hopes of gaining a reader or two.
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near those people. Not in a rain storm, on a bus, in a car, on the street, anywhere near them, on the off chance that God might decide he’s just had about enough of them. And then Splat! or Zap! or ... or....
It's overpriced as "all the news that's fit to line the bottom of a bird cage".
Donohue is exactly right; it's all about sexual self-indulgence, and the Old Grey Lady doesn't like any attempts to roll that back.
The whole age-of-consent thing is worth delving into. Should there be laws on the books that criminalize sex with young people? Or should all such laws be repealed, as some of the radical left-wing sexual activists have suggested? Has the NY TIMES done any reporting on this? And if so, what sorts of conclusions might one draw from that reporting?
"Pinch" Sulzberger arrived at the helm in 1987 or 1988. As soon as he arrived, the Times editorial policy on these "lifestyle" and moral issues was slammed hard over to the left and has stayed there ever since. Anyone who hasn't agreed wholeheartedly with "Pinchy" has been labeled a "phobe".
Meanwhile, the Times has taken on a lot of homosexual talent. A statement a few years ago by one of their front-page editors informed us that something like 3/4's of the NYT's front-page editors are gay and/or bi and/or out or semi-out, and they just don't care who knows it.
Sulzberger, IOW, has loaded up his newspaper with politically active, wired-in homosexuals.
(Sigh) I’ll try to get this around to sincere and sincerely misinformed FReepers.
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