Tim Graham huffs in his latest anti-gay freakout in a Nov. 19 NewsBusters post:
Washington Post “social change reporter” Sandhya Somashekhar wrote a front-page story for Wednesday’s editions on how the Barilla pasta company completely surrendered to the gay left. The headline was “A recipe for recovery: Barilla makes amends to gay groups.”
As usual, the Post divided the conflict into “gay rights groups” and “social conservatives.” Gay activist Bob Witeck described the conservative view as “stupid and backwards.” Conservatives said…nothing. There was no space for rebuttal. “Social change” moves faster when “backwards” gets censored.
[…]Nobody in the story gets to say, for example, that “Human Rights Campaign” is a funny name for an anti-free speech group. “Discriminatory” speech — soon to include sermons inside churches, if Houston is any example — must be squashed. Nobody gets to say “discriminatory” things like “transgender-related health care” such as the amputation of breasts and genitals isn’t “health care.” In today’s progressive Post, those things are better left unthought, not just unsaid.
Graham has not expressed that same concern about “censorship” when it’s practiced by a “news” organization that operates down the hall from him.
As we’ve documented, CNSNews.com — operated by Graham’s employer, the Media Research Center — frequently censors the parts of stories that conflict with its right-wing agenda, resulting in stenographical documents masquerading as “news” articles, to the point that it actually uncritically presented the Church of Scientology’s stance against psychiatric drugs.
Unless Graham and his fellow MRC superiors can get CNS to act like the “news” organization it portrays itself as, Graham has no moral standing to attack the purported “censorship” of the “liberal media.”
This hypocrisy undermines the entire mission of the MRC, but Graham, Brent Bozell and the rest of the MRC crew don’t seem to recognize it.