When news is distorted by political correctness, everyone loses:about New York Times | |
Quote: Union Leader - When news is distorted by political correctness, everyone loses
Jay Ambrose in The Union Leader Editorials
"IF THE New York Times was the great paper it used to be, or even something less but still alert, still socially sensitive, still a paper with standards instead of an agenda, it could have used its extraordinary resources to thoroughly investigate gross injustice in Durham, N.C."
"It could have done electrifying work on how a two-bit, ethically amiss district attorney overlooked conflicting statements by a woman claiming Duke lacrosse players raped her at a strip-tease party and closed his eyes to varied evidence that contradicted her words. It could have hammered away at how this DA broke all the rules of established procedure by having the woman identify her alleged assailants from pictures of no one but those at the party, and how one of those indicted for the rape had an alibi as good as gold. "
"Looking squarely at the prejudices swirling around the case, it could have demonstrated how many Duke faculty members and others played a bigoted game by simply assuming prior to any persuasive information that here was a story of rich, arrogant white men taking sexual advantage of a poor black woman."
"Instead, as some devastating criticisms amply illustrate, the Times played the game itself, especially in one front-page story that minimized the hard facts while falling for flimflam that would not have fooled the rawest newsroom rookie in the land. "
Posted on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 06:19AM
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I searched for this small article, but at the original source it had strangely partly vanished.
~ A man needs a woman like a lion needs a stove. ~
~ Women deserve only equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. ~
~ Men are not collectively "guilty" of anything. ~
~ Never needing to be pregnant is a blessing. ~
~ Feminist ideology “men have to respect women, but women have no reason to respect men” ~
~ Everybody makes choices, and nobody should be entitled to special treatment because of those choices.
Equal results based on unequal treatment amounts to no kind of equality at all. ~
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7th-March-2007
