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...editorial entitled "Covering Homophobia" (Feb. 23, 1994), Timothy P. You calls for greater "Objectivity" in the coverage to gay related civil rights issues and he attacks what he perceives as unacceptable pro-gay "bias" on the part of the national media...
Welcome to the real world and thanks god that it's changing! What You calls "bias" and condemns as something which can and should be rooted out, I call "perspective," something which is an unavoidable by-product of human beings writing about human situations...
...clear-cut liberal perspective on the legitimacy of the civil rights of gays and lesbians seems like unacceptable "bias' then may be he should stop reading The New York Times and try The Boston Herald, instead...
...terms of the discussion. Most of us have been sitting stymied on the sidelines as families, schools, churches, neighborhoods, libraries, youth clubs, grocery stores, fire stations and hospitals broke apart, were shut down or just disappeared. We need some serious and open discussion on racism, hate speech and bias crimes held at ground level, such as in the nation's public schools. We need to do some work...
...indisputably true, impartiality itself can become a political position. In the current political climate, a reporter who does not take a conscious stand in print in favor of gay rights may find himself labelled homophobic, regardless of his personal beliefs, Yet on an issue so controversial, entertaining a bias in favor of gay rights--even if its correct--should be just as unacceptable as a bias against gays...