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Joseph Farah, founder, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily writes that  no matter where you turn today in the so-called “mainstream” media, practically all you see is coverage of people with  aberrant sexual practices.  This is happening because social activists, including many who just want to feel good  about their own aberrant sexual practices, have thoroughly dominated America’s newsrooms

“Today, no story that reflects negatively on homosexuality can or will be published,  disseminated or broadcast because of this internal pressure lobby inside the ‘gay media  complex’.  Worse yet, stories that have nothing to do with  homosexuality  now  must be injected with the topic. The Associated Press story on the American Sociological  Review paper on adoption is a great illustration of the problem.

“Since I pointed out  the way that story by David Crary was a complete  misrepresentation of a scientific study because of the reporter’s own homosexualized  worldview, there has been no comment by the world’s largest news-gathering organization.  There has been no correction, no clarification. As far as I can tell, the activist-reporter in  question and his supervising editors who approved his copy and sent it out to the four corners of  the planet are all still on the job, not facing discipline for their outright deception of their clients and the public at large.

“In case you missed it, the lead paragraph of Crary’s AP story reported: ‘Adoptive parents invest  more time and financial resources in their children than biological parents, according to a new  national study challenging arguments that have been used to oppose same sex marriage and gay  adoption.’

“As I pointed out, the study did no such thing. In fact, the report specifically stated that ‘the  number of these families in most nationally representative datasets is still too small to support  statistical analysis. Our analyses focus on married male-female couples who adopt.’

“In other words, reporter Crary and his colleagues and editors at AP manufactured  pro-homosexual fantasies in a study that had nothing to do with homosexuals.  It’s not unusual. In fact, it’s the norm.

“I took an educated guess last week that Crary was one of the tens of thousands of activists  posing as journalists in America’s newsrooms. As soon as that column was published, I was  inundated with evidence to support that contention.   All one really needs to do is Google the name ‘David  Crary’ along with the term ‘gay’.    Yes, he has won awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Yes, his  reports in context suggest a very strong agenda at work. And, yes, the man seems obsessed, to say the least, with anything and everything ‘gay.’

“As a denizen of the New Media, self-interest would suggest I keep my mouth shut while my  colleagues in the Old Media continue to destroy themselves. Yet, I hate to see even one more American deceived by the kind of Orwellian propaganda and  doublespeak so pervasive in world of the so-called ‘mainstream media.’ ”

Abortion

John-Henry Westen reported in LifeSiteNews.com (Feb.20, 2007) on the refusal of the New York Times to correct itself on a story replete with falsehoods over abortion in El Salvador.  “The most recent development is that the Times has refused to publish a corrective op-ed from  the Salvadoran group ‘Yes to Life’ which points out that the major newspaper in El Salvador  has uncovered numerous additional errors in the New York Times piece on abortion in El Salvador.

The NYT piece falsely claimed that women in the pro-life nation are imprisoned for up to 30  years for abortions, going so far as to claim that a woman who was imprisoned for infanticide was actually imprisoned for an abortion.

“When LifeSiteNews.com provided court documents  demonstrating the false claim the NYT public editor (on-line  ombudsman) corrected the paper and the resulting crescendo of public outrage forced a correction by the NYT editors.

“Julia Regina de Cardenal, president of ‘Yes to Life’, was interviewed for the original NYT  piece.   Julia Cardenal’s now-rejected NYT op-ed pointed out that ‘Salvadoran reporters who investigated  the issue of criminal prosecutions for abortion said that in the past seven years they found only three women were convicted of abortion and none of them was imprisoned. The primary purpose of criminal prosecutions is to charge abortionists who take advantage of women who find themselves in difficult situations.”

“While NYT reporter Jack Hitt attempted to paint a horrific situation for women in the country with pro-life laws, the true statistics show that women fared better under pro-life laws.  ‘Government figures,’ says  Julia Cardenal, ‘show maternal mortality went down in years following the tightening of our abortion law. Women are safer because of our laws.’

“One stunning fabrication, which the El Salvadoran papers uncovered in the NYT piece is the  portrayal of a Salvadoran female prosecutor. ‘The prosecutor, Flor Evelyn López, explained that sometime after the interview with Hitt, she received a call from a woman she believed was translating for Hitt who asked her if she owned a silver cross on a chain,’ says  Julia Cardenal. ‘When she said she did own such an item, the caller asked her to describe it, which she did.’

“Julia Cardenal concludes: ‘That description ended up in the Hitt article, as if she were wearing it at the time of the interview. The description of her hair style and make-up was also changed. The  end result is that her description was altered, giving her what many would consider a more  conservative, religious and less attractive appearance.”

With her NYT op-ed rejected,  Julia Cardenal has issued an open letter to the media which is available on 

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007_docs/OpenletterfromElSalvador.pdf .

See  also original LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

New York Times Caught in Abortion-Promoting Whopper - Infanticide Portrayed as Abortion

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112806.html .

New York Times Ombudsman Admits Paper Was Caught in Misrepresentation by

LifeSiteNews.com

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07010208.html

New York Times Finally Issues Correction on Abortion El Salvador Story

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07010801.html .