[swede1962]

New York Times accused of Catholic bashing, double standard on religion


Published March 15, 2012

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The New York Times is being accused of having a double standard when it comes to questioning religion, after it ran an ad calling on Catholics to leave their church, but nixed an ad making the same plea to Muslims.

The newspaper published an ad from Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation on March 9 which asked Catholics, “why send your children to parochial schools to be indoctrinated into the next generation of obedient donors and voters?” The ad went on to call loyalty to the faith misplaced “after two decades of sex scandals involving preying priests, church complicity, collusion and cover-up going all the way to the top.”

But in a story first reported by The Daily Caller, when Pamela Geller, a blogger and executive director of Stop Islamization of America, offered the same $39,000 for the Old Gray Lady to run an ad making a similar appeal to Muslims, the newspaper passed.

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“The fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and/or civilians in the [Afghan] region in danger,” Times officials told Geller in a letter dated March 13. The letter said the Times would consider publishing the ad in a few months, and said “we publish this type of advertising, even those we disagree with, because we believe in the First Amendment.”

No surprise there


I don't remember the Old Gray Mare being this concerned about out troops overseas when a Republican was the President...

[Kilmerfan]

swede1962, on 15 March 2012 - 02:33 PM, said:

New York Times accused of Catholic bashing, double standard on religion


Published March 15, 2012

| FoxNews.com

Article



The New York Times is being accused of having a double standard when it comes to questioning religion, after it ran an ad calling on Catholics to leave their church, but nixed an ad making the same plea to Muslims.

The newspaper published an ad from Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation on March 9 which asked Catholics, “why send your children to parochial schools to be indoctrinated into the next generation of obedient donors and voters?” The ad went on to call loyalty to the faith misplaced “after two decades of sex scandals involving preying priests, church complicity, collusion and cover-up going all the way to the top.”

But in a story first reported by The Daily Caller, when Pamela Geller, a blogger and executive director of Stop Islamization of America, offered the same $39,000 for the Old Gray Lady to run an ad making a similar appeal to Muslims, the newspaper passed.

<snip>


“The fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and/or civilians in the [Afghan] region in danger,” Times officials told Geller in a letter dated March 13. The letter said the Times would consider publishing the ad in a few months, and said “we publish this type of advertising, even those we disagree with, because we believe in the First Amendment.”

No surprise there


I don't remember the Old Gray Mare being this concerned about out troops overseas when a Republican was the President...

They did not seem to mind putting our troops in danger by printing lies about the Sargent involved in the massacre, NY times is making up sH1t that he was drunk and not head trauma.

Pig sh!t > NYT

[GI JANE]

WHAT?!? The New York Times has a double standard????

[Kilmerfan]

GI JANE, on 16 March 2012 - 07:11 AM, said:

WHAT?!? The New York Times has a double standard????

TMZ has higher standards.