Posted by
JDComments on Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:04:37 AM
By now most everybody is aware that the NYT wrote an inaccurate article claiming the majority of women in the US are no longer married, hailing this "momentous" occasion as a major news item.
The article has since been
dissected and shown to be not just inaccurate, but just plain wrong, and that marriage is alive and well in this country.
Several months ago I posted about a different Times article which also claimed that conventional marriages were dropping, an article which I had alot of difficulty understanding given that the math it used did not come close to adding up.
At the risk of appearing cynical, and doubting that the NYT is just objectively reporting what it believes to be true, one must ask what could be the agenda which drives them to print these articles.
There is an obvious answer- by disparaging conventional marriage, could they
possibly be trying to undercut a major argument against it being revised to include gays? If marriage has become the choice of a
minority of people, well how can one argue that the gay minority should be excluded? If marriage is no longer the
building block of our society, why shouldn't it be treated like all the other institutions and made politically correct?
The Times may just be incompetent ,and printing spurious pieces which seem to fool no one else, and if that is the case their editors and publisher should be taking a long, hard look at themselves.
Or they could be pursuing the Liberal agenda at the cost of objectively informing their readers of important news.
Either way, its easy to see why they have fallen so far in the estimation of so many people.