Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I am just one globally distributed newspaper, what can I do

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=161090&f=28

The Times has a nice editorial today on the Wright controversy. It even goes so far as to openly note how white pastors can say pretty much ANYTHING without 'people' batting an eye, while black pastors get hunted down and eaten alive for looking cross eyed at America.

But the sentiment is oddly detached from reality. Part of the reason people care so much about Wright's remarks are because the Times has written about how everyone should care about them every day since the story broke. Photos, front pages, articles, and dozens of op eds that they approved.

And a big part of the reason no one cared about Hagee was at least as much because the only time he gets mentioned is on page 20 in a small blurb about McCain denouncing him (which in fact he has never done). Plus hagee is perpetually referred to simply as a `controversial` person rather than actually repeating WHY he's controversial.

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