Reply #129: New York Times? Hasn't been a friend. [View All]

[jeremyfive]

Those of us who have been around awhile will recall that the New York Times was one of the last major news sources to adopt the word "gay" as appropriate for use--the very term that gay people chose to call themselves. The Wall Street Journal, for God's sake, was using "gay" to refer to gay people for quite some time before the NY Times came around. This is very comparable to continuing to call blacks only "negros" (or worse) when they have made it known they prefer simply "black" or alternately, "people of color".

Even very lately (I haven't heard that it has changed), the New York Times was filtering the word "gay" from their search engine, just as they would any objectionable or foul word.

So while I fully believe the New York Times may have our interests at heart at times, they are late to the party.

For me, I'm still waiting for Obama to disavow the language of his court brief--it was offensive in its support for DOMA.

We are taxpayers. We matter.