AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Is The New York Times Too Gay? http://www.americablog.com/2004/07/is-new-york-times-too-gay.html[4/5/2009 11:24:27 PM]Daily Kos The Return of the Sunni Insurgency - Few observers of the war in Iraq have been more insightful than journalist Tom Ricks.</p><p> In his military and defensereporting for the Washington Post and i...8 minutes ago HuffPost Politics Blacks At Odds Over Scrutiny Of Obama - Jeff Johnson knows how to make his audiences squirm.The young, black radio and TV politicalcommentator waits for the discussion to turn tothe... 14 minutes ago Crooks and Liars Open Thread - [image: writers-we-love_4addd.jpg] Woody Allen riffs on lobsters and Bernie Madoff.</p><p> Open thread below...53 minutes ago Firedoglake Sunday Late Nite: What Else Do VIPs Deserve? - Inspired by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-walmARt)who managed to get fifty colleagues to help herwater down the estate tax by using the excuse ofsaving .02... 1 hour agoJOHN'S PHOTOS MONDAY, JULY 26, 2004 Is The New York Times Too Gay? by Michael in New York on 7/26/2004 01:00:00 AM The NYT "public editor" Daniel Okrent thinks he's being cheekily forthright by admitting the New York Times is a liberal newspaper. (Quite true, of course.) Unfortunately, his prime example stinks: gay marriage.</p><p> The NYT is far too "balanced" on gay issues, feeling for years that any stories about gays must include hate-filled diatribes from far-right wackos like Gary Bauer so the NYT won't be accused of being lefties.</p><p> That's not balance; that's bigotry.</p><p> Write Okrent at public@nytimes.com and tell him you wish they'd be more "balanced" on black issues and always quote David Duke and the KKK and more "balanced" on Jews by always quoting Rev.</p><p> Farrakhan and...well, youget the idea. di h d lt Ad b G l Add New Comment Unclaimed Register with DISQUS Why? Name EmailWebsite (optional) Yahoo! 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