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New York Times said to be liberal.

The ombudsman of the New York Times, Daniel Okrent, admits his paper has a liberal bias. He uses as an example the paper’s coverage of gay marriage. (*)

Okrent criticizes the lifestyle pieces on gay marriage run so often by the Times for their lack of objectivity. This echoes my own criticism of the NYT several months ago. (†)

Okrent’s admission is not stunning, but it is stunning in that it occurred at all, and right in the pages of the NYT.

The public is becoming more aware of the media’s lack of objectivity on many important issues. As I discussed before (‡), there may negative consequences for the media, such as loss of public trust.

Update: 26 July 2004. Stanley Kurtz is justifiably proud of Okrent’s oblique reference to him. (§) It’s disappointing that the big media organizations have not interviewed Kurtz. He is perhaps the leading American voice in the fight to uphold classical marriage.

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