Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will give the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony. For those of you in Placentia, California that would mean the opening prayer.
From the L.A. Times:
"Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, a gay rights organization that worked against Proposition 8, called the decision to include Warren in the inauguration ceremony a "slap in the face to millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who donated for, worked for and helped elect Barack Obama president."
This being the Times, no word in the article about the millions of pro-life Americans who might take issue with Pastor Rick participating in the swearing-in of a President who has received nothing but 100% marks from NARAL.
And of course, the obligatory “Gays protest/boycott – Gays lose jobs”. Again, from the L.A. Times on the protests at landmark Mexican restaurant El Coyote whose manager Margie Christofferson made a $100 donation to the Prop. 8 campaign:
"A boycott was organized on the Internet, with activists trashing El Coyote on restaurant review sites. Then came throngs of protesters, some of them shouting "shame on you" at customers. The police arrived in riot gear one night to quell the angry mob.
The mob left, but so did the customers."
"Sections of the restaurant have been closed, a manager told me Friday during a very quiet lunch hour. Some of the 89 employees, many of them gay, have had their hours cut, and layoffs are looming. And Christoffersen, who has taken a voluntary leave of absence, is wondering whether she'll ever again be able to work at the restaurant, which opened in 1931 (at 1st and La Brea) and is owned by her 92-year-old mother."
We suppose its all about suffering (and causing others to suffer) for your cause.
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I get it! Let's criticize the L.A. Times on things we don't like, and then use them as souce material on things we do!
- Mongo Reading His "National Review" while Listening to EIB and Getting the TV Ready for "The Factor" so He Can Have Fairness and Balance
I don't see how this is inconsistent.
Are you implying that my opinion of the Times or anything else for that matter requires rigidity and needs to be absolute? That would be myopic and extremely doctrinaire. How very unnuanced, indeed.
By this logic, I'm forbidden from expressing an admiration for the work of columnist T.J. Simers.
But I even wouldn't even characterize it as criticism - merely pointing out what I see as fairly typical behavior from the Times.
Also, if you cared to read the linked article (oh, that's right - cutting and pasting the entire freaking article is the M.O. in these parts), you would find that the author presents both sides of the story. I chose to highlight the portion that I found most absurd because pointing out and mocking absurd behavior whether its from Democrats, Republicans, SEC football fans, NFL head coaches, Presidents, Presidential candidates... and yes, Prop. 8 supporters is fun and makes for some damn easy blogging.
Yes.
But when it's a "BwD disagrees-moment" it's the entire L.A. Times at fault, as if the Food Section was just as much to blame for not squaring with your opinion on Bosnian-Serb relations as the Op/Ed.
When it's an agreeable moment, that T.J. Simers is quite a guy!
And I did read the article. 3 days ago. Was going to cut and paste it...
- Mongo Dorothy Chandler
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You're being highly selective and purposely (or forgetfully) misleading.
If I sense or note a general trend or bias in the news reporting, then for the sake of simplicity and brevity, I will generalize the entire publication. To wit, the general slant of the L.A. Times is very much pro-illegal alien. Why do I need to cite a particular author from the Times when it is understodd in these parts that the Times is a border softie. As a general guideline, I won't mention the author of a news item... columnists are a different matter.
(Besides, doesn't "Hey, the L.A. Times wrote a great story today...) sound really weird and like I don't know what I'm doing?)
So, as for not being critical of specific columnists... are you kidding? Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Ruben Navarette, Molly Ball, Sam Anderson are just a few names off the top of my head whom I have specifically taken to task for horrible columns. And, actually, I think Molly Ball wasn't even a columnist but the Hillary campaign beat reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, so I guess I have called out "newsies", also.
The whole BwD Walter Duranty Putridity in Journalism Project has been all about naming names and identifying those worthy of scorn and ridicule.
So, bro, I don't know what else to tell you. You're off base.
Certain leadership knowing the "nuances" -- for whatever reason a dirty concept in BwD Land -- probably would have been a healthy antidote for much of what has illed this nation for the last 8 years.
But, back to the topic at hand, a couple things:
First, most of our dwindling local papers are owned by major companies and getting more and more homogenous in cost-saving measures. These big companies look for the bottom-line... the advertising dollar. Pressure is, in turn, put on the few remaining reporters at these papers to actually tone down much of what they see as observable fact so that advertisers (usually big companies themselves) aren't put off.
As Walter Cronkite once famously said re another form of media about his signature sign-off, "That was never 'the way it is'. Everything was turned on its ear from pressure coming from CBS ownership, rather than coming from the news director."
But let's say -- for the moment -- the L.A. Times has this incredible lefty bias. Simple solution: Don't read it. Nobody is going to give you an essay exam on the writings of Joel Stein.
- Mongo Murray Ostler
Fortunately, because of my incredibly honed reading and interpretation skills, I can separate the wheat from the chaff and won't have to resort to chucking the Food Section because of some Op-Ed piece I read above the fold on the front page.
As for the new strategy that you say newspapers are employing to retain readership: That's working out well.
Finally, please do a BwD blog search for "New York Times", "LA Times" and "left-leaning", "in the tank for Obama" and any other right-wing invectives (much like the other fabulist contention you made in the comments above) and see what you come up with. You may be disappointed. But you knew that already.
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