Just How ‘Gay’ is The New York Times? Ask Richard Berke

Concerned Women for America ^ | 2/5/2003 | Peter LaBarbera

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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.

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[Keith in Iowa]

You should send this to Bill O'Reilly - he'd make somehting out of it...

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[montag813]

So 75% of the New York Times' decision-makers are homosexuals, and Marc Racicot wants "outreach" to them? I guess he hasn't READ the Times lately.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this. This comes as no surprise to me: 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."

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[cgk]

The bigger dirtier secret is the gay influence at Disney.

[Ciexyz]

The New York Times - All the News the Clintons Tell Us to Print

LOL!

[ffusco]

Re The NYT

Intelligent......... Yes,

Unbiased...........No!

As the paper of record for Intellectuals it is a morass of post-modernist dogma including feminism, cultural relativism, The cult of victimology, promoting the Gay agenda, Enviromentalism, global warming, anti-capitalism and peo-abortion.

But it's still fun to spend all day sunday in bed with coffee and bagels doing the crossword puzzle with my lady.

[Helms]

Question: Was Jason Balir a "fluffer" for NYT Executives?

Answer: In a round about way, you might say

Ref:http://www.fluffer.com/

[astounded]

SarahM:
Yes, and Clinton will go down in history (pardon the pun, if you will) as one of our greatest presidents.

[Travis McGee]

I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Look, who cares about the Times anymore?

If, after this recent Blair flap, anyone takes anything they publish and report, seriously, then they've got a few screws loose.

It's a tired, leftist rag that's been exposed for it's hypocrisy, lies, and kow-towing to affirmative action hires and "di-verrrr-ssss-iiiii-ttttt-yyyyyy" (<- to be read in Michael Savage voice).

So they're also filled with fags, too, according to this guy.

So what?

The paper is a rag. It's a joke. If this latest Blair scandal wasn't enough to put the stake through the vampire's heart, then nothing is for some people. So they'll continue to read it, and the rest of us who've long known what's what have all the proof we ever needed to ignore anything they say (as if we already didn't).

The paper is a joke. It's trash. It's leftist bilge. Who reads it anyway, except the Peter Jennings crowd? Would anything like the Blair story change their opinion of the rag anyway? Of course not. You could find out that Karl Marx himself had been cloned and was secretly the "Uber-editor" for the past thirty years, and still the Jennings crowd would read it, and think it was "all the news that's fit to print".

We all know better. We knew better before. The Blair thing simply blew it all sky high and proved it to the rest beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It's a filthy socialist propaganda rag. Hopefully the Blair thing will help diminish its influence. Doesn't matter to me, though, one way or the other. I never read it, and never will. So nothing has changed for me, at least.

[far sider]

Now we know why the NY Times sucks.

[Helms]

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Directed by Ithaca College film students Michael Wills, Joshua Leone, and Heather Tyler Moore -Donahue

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[anniegetyourgun]

So, you're related to Jason Blair?

[pollwatcher]

"Berke was one of the speakers at the NLGJA's "View from the Top"

So, that must mean he's not a "bottom?"

[GOPJ]

New York Times Diversity: a white liberal, a black liberal, a straight liberal, a gay liberal, an old liberal, a young liberal, a Spanish surnamed liberal, a poor liberal, a rich liberal.

[expatpat]

Homosexuality has nothing to do with child molestation

That may be true, but begs the question. The fact is that molestation of teenage boys is highly correlated with homosexuality, and that is what was going on.

[Susannah]

"The fact is that molestation of teenage boys is highly correlated with homosexuality, and that is what was going on."


One more reason why priests should ALL be married (to someone of the opposite sex)