Two Boston Herald reporters accurately report a phone conversation they had with a Massachusetts Catholic bishop, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston calls them "either ignoran[t] of [the] church's teachings or [expressing] a media sympathy for the gay rights agenda."
Don't I remember something about "not bearing false witness"?
Church: Media got bishop's words on gays all wrong : ...A front-page story in the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, The Pilot, deals with the controversy. An accompanying editorial states the reporters who wrote the story for the Boston Herald, The Boston Globe and other media displayed "either ignorance of church's teachings or a media sympathy for the gay rights agenda."... In a telephone interview with a Herald reporter after his testimony, Reilly was asked about denying benefits to "gay couples." Reilly said: "That's wrong, and that's too bad." He further said: "We have to find a way" to give civil benefits to gay partners. Reilly did make it clear... that the church opposes any form of "gay marriage."
Why slime reporters who were doing their jobs well? Why not a simple "Bishop Reilly was off message"?
Posted by DeLong at November 3, 2003 07:56 AM
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