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In The Gospel According to the New York Times, Proctor contends that the paper blurs the lines that should divide straight news from editorial content. In doing so, the Times tips its hand and reveals its liberal agenda, one supportive of homosexuality and abortion, and critical of Christianity, Republicanism, gun control, and capital punishment, among other issues.
Proctor, who was a reporter himself at the New York Daily News in the '70s, acknowledges that total journalistic objectivity is never possible. And in an interview with the Bulletin, he allowed that crossing the line between news and editorial is a growing trend in many papers. He chose to focus on the Times, he said, because of the enormous influence that stems from "being at the top of the heap."
Although Proctor says that to some extent the Times is simply reporting on what is happening in society, he contends that it is also contributing to shaping our views. He cites active and positive coverage of homosexuality, which he believes has swayed popular opinion in favor of gays and lesbians. He says he was surprised to see the active hostility that surfaced in inflammatory language describing members of conservative religious groups.
The Gospel According to the New York Times: How the World's Most Powerful News Organization Shapes Your Mind and Values Bill Proctor is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News. He has written or co-authored more than 70 nonfiction books, including several national bestsellers.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Rise of the New Fundamentalism
The New American Faith
Thus Saith the Times...
Welcome to the World of Culture Creep
All the Bias That's Fit to Print
The West 43rd Street Plan of Salvation
Part II: The Seven Deadly Sins---According to the Times
The Sin of Religious Certainty
The Sin of Conservatism
The Sin of Capital Punishment
The Sin of Broken Public Trust
The Second of the Second Amendment
The Sin of Censorship
The Sin of Limiting Abortion
Part III: The Cultural Spirits of the Times
The Spirits of Globalism and Multiculturalism
The Spirit of Total Sexual Freedom
The Spirits of Environmentalism and Entitlement
The Spirits of Scientism and Humanism
Part IV: Responding to the New Fundamentalism
A Strategy to Combat Culture Creep
Is There an Authentic Voice of the People?
Appendix: Research Methodology
Columbia Journalism Review To reinforce his thesis, Proctor offers story counts from the Times's own data base. For example, in a search covering a one-year period from 1998-99, he calculates 1,522 stories on welfare; 1,481 stories on gays; and 980 stories on abortion. In another 365-day period covering 1998-99, he found 119 articles on the subject of intolerance, and a search for the word "bigotry" turned up 122 articles. This weight of coverage, he says, is an accurate barometer of the paper's corporate belief system; the more readers are exposed to an issue, the more they may be influenced on it. In a third year-long search, he makes a more interesting argument about what he calls the use of "loaded language." Thus the term "anti-abortion" appears in 169 articles, while "pro-abortion" appears only fourteen times. The same is true of the term "religious right," which appears frequently, and of the term "religious left," which is virtually non-existent. Unfortunately, such legitimate complaints are obscured by Proctor's rhetoric and insistence on attributing Machiavellian motives to the Times.
...He condemns the Times for allowing NBC and The Wall Street Journal to be first with the story of Juanita Broaddrick's rape allegations against President Clinton. A 1998 story about Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's support for a domestic partners bill in New York, with the headline, gay groups rejoice in mayor's move as critics deplore it, was "heavily weighted toward the gay position" and "revealed an almost total absence of 'the deploring' that was promised in the headline."
A Wealth of Information Online (New York Times Ignores FR, As Usual) That was nowhere more clear than on the high-tech community known as Slashdot, at www.slashdot.org, where members posted more than 1,100 messages by 5 p.m. that included links to NASA pages
New York Times Omits Key Facts On Miguel Estrada The Left is going all out to stop the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. The most recent example came just yesterday in The New York Times' lead editorial, which branded Estrada as an "unacceptable" nominee.
The New York Times Declares War On America And yet, the New York Times now insists that Bush lacks the necessary support to wage a war. In making mischief with war...
Newsweek Exposes New York Times' Leftist Bias This would be like Tom Daschle accusing Al Gore of being a whiner, but Newsweek magazine is pointing out the growing left-wing bias at the New York Times.
Vanity Fair Editor David Rose: New York Times Article "Fabrication" While discussing an upcoming article in the December 2002 Vanity Fair, David Rose (senior editor/VF) tells Katie "The Affable One" Couric that a New York Times article from October 2002 about Czech President Havel's remarks on Iraq and hijacker Mohammed Atta is a "fabrication".
American Voters Enrage the New York Times For all those who voted Republican in Tuesday's elections, you should know that the New York Times is terribly upset at you. And it, of course, knows what's best for you. In an item headlined "Left-wing jihad," the Washington Times today reported: "The New York Times editorial page, denouncing mainstream conservatives as extremists, yesterday called on Senate Democrats to use whatever means necessary to maintain control of the federal judiciary. "The newspaper, whose editorials often are far to the left of even most Democrats, suggested that it represents the views of centrists against extremists and racists, including President Bush."
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