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NYT anti-Catholic? I don't buy it, says ombudsman
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Dowd doesn't single out Catholics for her unfair treatment
Posted by
Bradley Fikes
11/9/2009 3:28:02 PM
So to that extent I think the anti-Catholicism charge is wrong. Dowd maligns many different classes of people with her column with misrepresentat...
So to that extent I think the anti-Catholicism charge is wrong. Dowd maligns many different classes of people with her column with misrepresentation. That's why there's such a word as dowdified.
So Archbishop Dolan, take comfort that in being a Dowd target, you have plenty of company.
I sound like a broken record ...
Posted by
Alex Dering
11/9/2009 3:11:24 PM
... but two separate issues are being argued simultaneously and interchangeably.
Dowd is quoted in the ombud's piece with "It's not right to c...
... but two separate issues are being argued simultaneously and interchangeably.
Dowd is quoted in the ombud's piece with "It's not right to call legitimate — and widely shared — complaints about the church hierarchy anti-Catholic, any more than it's right to call opposition to the policies of a White House anti-American."
She's gotten this one right. The one issue is "Is the New York Times anti-Catholic?" The other issue is "Is the New York Times anti-Catholic Church hierarchy?" And those are two separate discussions.
Dolan's arguments/complaints seem mainly to be of a similar stripe as those of someone in charge of a corporation that is overrun with problems. Rather than the people in charge addressing the issues, facing the music, and weeding out the troublemakers, the strategy has become that of labeling the critics and whistleblowers as the troublemakers.
And that dog just don't hunt.
anti-NYT?
Posted by
Sean Leaffe
11/9/2009 3:10:23 PM
I live in the real world, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Questioning authority -- whether it's George Bush, Barack Obama or...
I live in the real world, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Questioning authority -- whether it's George Bush, Barack Obama or the pope -- doesn't make a newspaper anti-anything. A long time ago before the self-appointed standard-bearers of values and morality started up their culture war and labeled everything they disagreed with as"biased" and "liberal," we used to call such questioning good journalism.
anit-catholic
Posted by
mike gormley
11/9/2009 1:08:20 PM
the Times sees itself as modern, secular, and liberal. it views the Church as tradition, religious, and conservative. The archbishop is correct t...
the Times sees itself as modern, secular, and liberal. it views the Church as tradition, religious, and conservative. The archbishop is correct to point out a reflexive anti-Catholic strain (stain?) in the establishment media. the same people who deny it deny that the Times is opposed to the Republican party. They live in a delusional dream worlld all their own. Most of us, though, live in the real world and can see the Times' biases quite clearly.
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