Another slap in the face by the liberal left....
The Washington Times, National Weekly Edition, December 13-19, 1999
Homosexuality and news values at the Washington Post by Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media:
Why have the establishment media ignored the horrible murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexual men in the little town of Rogers, Ark.? That is a question that was first asked by The Washington Times on Oct. 22, nearly a month after the seventh-grader was found dead after he had been brutally assaulted sexually by Davis Carpenter, 38, and his lover, Joshua Brown, 22, on Sept. 26.
The front-page story in The Times by Joyce Howard Price brought the story, which had been on the front page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for three days, out of Arkansas. But a Nexis search at the end of November found only a half-dozen news stories about it outside of Arkansas and a dozen editorials, opinion columns and letters.
The contrast between the coverage of homosexuals murdering a seventh-grader in Arkansas and straights murdering Matthew Shepard, a homosexual college student in Wyoming, was striking. The Washington Post printed more than 80 stories about the Shepard case since the murder last year. It has run one 59-word story about the Dirkhising murder, on Saturday, Oct. 30, and that did not even appear in the edition that is widely distributed in the greater Washington area.
That was eight days after The Washington Times put the story on page one, five days after Les Kinsolving, a Baltimore radio talk show host, had asked White House spokesman Joe Lockhart if President Clinton would comment on the Dirkhising murder as he had on the Shepard case, and a day after the Associated Press finally put the story on the national wire. The Washington Post's ombudsman explained her paper's failure to cover the story, saying, in effect, that it does not report murders outside the Washington area unless, like the Shepard murder, the editors think they teach a lesson or are exceptionally newsworthy.
Jonathan Gregg, a senior editor at Time, gave this explanation in a column in Time Daily on line: "The reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising' death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard."
Anyone who called the two men monsters before they killed Jesse Dirkhising would have been accused by other homosexuals of gay-bashing. Practicing sadistic sex and seducing young boys is not uncommon among homosexuals. Those who do so are not labeled monsters and cast out. The day Jesse was killed, the annual Folsom Street Leather Fair was being held in San Francisco, celebrating sado-masochism with public demonstrations of whippings and bondage. During the 1993 Gay Rights March on Washington, a government auditorium was put at their disposal to show the tools of "rough sex" like whips, chains, bondage devices, and electric cattle prods. There was also a large photo of "fisting", a form of sodomy even more revolting than that done to Jesse.
Seducing young boys is called "intergenerational sex" and is promoted by the North American Man-Boy Love Association. In 1983, Rep. Gerry Studds was censured for having sex with a young page. He was not expelled from Congress, much less the gay community.
Jesse's murder came at a bad time for the homosexuals who were organizing a campaign to get every public school in the country to teach children that homosexuality is normal. They were lining up support from the teachers unions and national associations of school administrators, psychologists, social workers, and pediatricians. On Nov. 23, they announced that booklets proclaiming homosexuality normal would be sent to every school district in the nation.
Stories describing the horrible things done to Jesse Dirkhising could have aborted this ambitious project. Homosexuals are very influential in the newsrooms of the establishment media these days. If there was any debate about publicizing the Dirkhising story, arguments like those in Jonathan Gregg's Time on-line column prevailed.
Much of the behavior that homosexuals want children to believe is normal is too revolting to be described in a family newspaper. That is why educators should be shown the police reports on the Dirkhising murder and asked if what they describe meets their definition of normal. The reports can be found on Americansfortruth.org. |
