A house united in ignorance cannot stand
The NYT’s Timothy Egan on the wilful ignorance (if that’s the right term for it) of far-right Americans and the media that abets them.
Fri, August 27 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » 1 Comment
NYT public editor brushes off complaints about coverage of Pope, sex abuse scandal
NYT public editor Clark Hoyt has defended the paper’s decision to go hard after the role current Pope Benedict XVI may have played in going soft on a priest accused of sexual abuse back when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
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Turkey considers prosecuting publisher of ‘The God Delusion’
From the Nov. 28 Guardian: A Turkish prosecutor is considering whether to prosecute the Turkish publisher of Richard Dawkins’ bestselling atheist polemic, The God Delusion, on the grounds that it incites religious hatred. The publisher, Erol Karaaslan, said today that he expected to be questioned on Thursday by an Istanbul prosecutor as part of an official investigation, [...]
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