Is the Los Angeles Times "piling on" when it comes to covering sex abuse by Christians? Have they misled their readers again? In the front section of today's Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, September 5, 2006) is an article, … [Read more...]
Reader Nails LA Times Columnist for ‘Ignorance,’ ‘Naiveté,’ and ‘Anti-Catholicism’
August 13, 2006 By
Last week, in this NewsBusters post, we took issue with the anti-Catholicism in an August 5, 2006, column from Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten. In an especially ugly and vitriolic piece, Rutten capitalized on the arrest of Mel … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Times Gives Forum to Anti-Catholic Zealot
May 31, 2006 By
Today's Los Angeles Times (Wed. May 31, 2006) features a nasty anti-Catholic op-ed by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Goldhagen is an author of several works that have brutally attacked the Catholic Church, including a 2002 New Republic piece … [Read more...]
LA Times’ Rutten: ‘Da Vinci Code’ Is ‘Only a Movie,’ But Gibson’s ‘Passion’ Was ‘Combustible’
May 20, 2006 By
The headline to today's Los Angeles Times' "Regarding Media" column (Sat. May 20, 2006), penned by the perpetually clueless Tim Rutten, is "Media should stop and say, 'It's only a movie'." The movie … [Read more...]
KABC’s Doug McIntyre: L.A.’s Cardinal Mahony a ‘Scumbag’, ‘Molester’
March 1, 2006 By
Add me to the list of Los Angeles-area Catholics who are not pleased about the decision of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony to instruct priests to defy a proposed federal law designed to target illegal immigration. (The law needs to be passed by … [Read more...]
O’Reilly Guest Falsely Claimed President Clinton Prevented Millennium Attacks On U.S.
February 9, 2006 By
Nancy Soderberg, a former Ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Policy Advisor under the Clinton administration, repeated the often-heard myth that President Clinton prevented Millennium attacks on the United States. Soderberg made … [Read more...]
ABC’s Bogus ‘Pope Joan’ Story Also Hocked Feminist ‘Rule of Thumb’ Myth
December 30, 2005 By
The bogus story of "Pope Joan" was not the only fiction that ABC and Diane Sawyer tried to hustle on the American public in last night's Primetime (Thursday December 29, 2005). In trying to convey the environment of … [Read more...]
ABC Pushes Anti-Catholic ‘Pope Joan’ Tale
December 27, 2005 By
Check out the promotional ad for this Thursday evening's (December 29, 2005) episode of ABC's Primetime. The promo is for the story, "On the Trail of Pope Joan" (audiotape on file; emphasis mine): "Diane Sawyer … [Read more...]
Media Matters, Others in ‘Revisionism’ Pitch of Michael Steele Oreo Episode
November 25, 2005 By
Media Matters and the blog Daily Kos are among two liberal mouthpieces who look to be on a slippery campaign to rewrite one of the more ugly episodes in recent memory for Democrats. It appears they are trying revise the history that Oreo … [Read more...]
Really Bad Theology from Michael McGough
July 19, 2005 By
In an incredibly frustrating piece, "What the Bible really says about gays" (July 18, 2005, Los Angeles Times), columnist Michael McGough treads the line of journalistic integrity when he … [Read more...]
