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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d.taggart who wrote (134282)	3/30/2001 11:54:33 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Taggart: From the article you cited: "Sullivan hinted that hushing it up might help to confirm anti-homosexuals' "suspicions that this murder actually is typical of gays"." I think the average person who knew of this incident would certainly be suspicious. There are two many issues relating to legislation having to do with gays that are just not being discussed. In a free society the most likely way to acheive a good result is to put all the facts on the table. The media clearly has an agenda and is not going to let that happen. Little joe

To: d.taggart who wrote (134282)	3/31/2001 12:15:05 AM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769667

Richard Berke, the national political correspondent for the New York Times, recently spoke at a reception celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He reminisced about the bad old days at the Times, when homosexual reporters were discriminated against. How things have changed. "Now," he said, "there are times when you look at the front-page meeting and ... literally three-quarters of the people deciding what’s on the front page are not-so-closeted homosexuals." Has this made any difference in how the Times reports the news? Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the Times, was recently asked if he recognized the name Jesse Dirkhising. It was no surprise that he didn’t, because not a word about Jesse Dirkhising’s death ever appeared in the New York Times. He was a 13-year-old boy who was brutally tortured by two adult homosexuals who used him as a sex toy for their own gratification. They went too far, and young Jesse died. The Associated Press did stories about it, but they were distributed only in Arkansas, not on the national wire. It was not until a reporter for the Washington Times brought this to the attention of AP headquarters in New York that the news service distributed a Dirkhising story on its national wire. Was this because it wasn’t newsworthy? Certainly the public has an interest in such stories. Many of those who knew about Jesse Dirkhising’s cruel murder contrasted its sparse media coverage with the abundant coverage of the cruel murder of a young homosexual man in Wyoming by two young men who didn’t like homosexuals. This case still pops up in the news from time to time when "hate" crimes are discussed. It seems clear that homosexual journalists are far more interested in reporting cases where homosexuals are the victims than cases where they are the villains. In the latter cases they are prone to practice "news nullification." We have recently seen a good example of this in Massachusetts, where a group called the Parents Rights Coalition (PRC) caught a national homosexual organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) lying about a state-funded program it runs that ostensibly tries to make public schools safe for gays. The Parents Rights Coalition had some of its people attend a conference sponsored by GLSEN that was supposed to be part of its safe schools activity. Rather than teach the students how they could protect themselves against AIDS, three state employees were using the conference to tell them all about "queer sex" practices. With their tape recording, the parents had irrefutable proof that three state employees leading the discussion were instructing young kids, boys and girls together, in such techniques as "fisting," a particularly repulsive and dangerous homosexual practice. Most of the media in Massachusetts showed little interest in using the tape to expose wrongdoing by state employees and GLSEN. Reporters had been provided with transcripts of the tape. They did nothing. It was left to a radio talk show host to break the story by playing the tape on her program. That excited the television news people, and nearly all the TV stations played portions of the tape. The AP provided its member papers in Massachusetts with a good story about the tape on May 16. It was the first to report Education Commissioner David Driscoll’s denunciation of the workshops as "of a prurient nature," "not educational" and contributing "absolutely nothing to the students’ understanding of how to avoid AIDS." The sad part of the story is that not a single daily paper in the state ran this AP story. That included the largest paper in the state, the Boston Globe, which is owned by the New York Times and has a large and influential homosexual contingent in its newsroom. They apparently exercised news nullification in dealing with this story. The chances of getting these papers to report, much less feature, this story or the Jesse Dirkhising murder story are very slim indeed. newsmax.com