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Topic: Is the Post ‘pro-gay’? |
Is the Post ‘pro-gay’?
Washington Post, by Patrick B. Pexton
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Posted By:jackson, 2/25/2013 2:21:18 PM
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| I get a steady stream of e-mails and phone calls from readers who assert that The Post has a “pro-gay agenda” and publishes too many “puffy” stories about gay marriage, and that it even allows too many same-sex couples to appear in the Date Lab feature in Sunday’s WP Magazine. “The conservative, pro-family side gets short shrift,” as one reader recently put it, and The Post “caters slavishly to Dupont Circle.” Indeed, that reader got into a vigorous three-way e-mail dialogue with a Post reporter and me over the issue, an exchange that goes to the heart
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Comments:
Answer from "Ombudsman"? Yes - but it is the civil rights issue of our time. And since a reporter and paper´s first concern is "social justice" - it is OK.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 2/25/2013 2:32:08 PM (No. 9195432)
As if anyone cares. You can get the much better Washington Examiner for free. The Post will be out of business in 5 years.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
raspberry, 2/25/2013 2:34:54 PM (No. 9195443)
Their pro gay-bias goes way back before it became a "civil rights" matter. I remember a fathers day issue where there was no story on traditional fathers but two on gays and in the book review section more pro gay reviews. That was when I stopped having that paper in my home.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mitzi, 2/25/2013 2:39:41 PM (No. 9195462)
I wouldn´t waste my breath debating with the Post.
Just ignore them. Pretend they don´t exist.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 2/25/2013 2:58:51 PM (No. 9195512)
social justice: lefty speak for payback
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DocH, 2/25/2013 3:29:12 PM (No. 9195597)
Is the sky blue? Is water wet? Is the president of the United States a narcissistic Marxist?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SheikYerBooty, 2/25/2013 3:56:17 PM (No. 9195670)
There are two kinds of liberals, the kind that´s out of the closet and the kind that´s not out of the closet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sallyherigstad, 2/25/2013 6:45:20 PM (No. 9195968)
Our "beliefs and fears"? They´re never more condescending then when they pat us on the head and talk about our supposed fears.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lotsamojo, 2/25/2013 6:50:57 PM (No. 9195971)
A lot of wordy paragraphs to sort´a justify why its beyond comprehension (in a liberal´s mind) to not be pro gay - the entire story/question could have been stated in one word - yes. Sure hope the Post can get it´s arms around the conservative abortion question. Where do they find these writers?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 2/25/2013 7:59:19 PM (No. 9196039)
This was rhetorical, right?
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