Sins of the Press: The Untold Story of The Boston Globe's Reporting on Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church Paperback – July 15, 2015
This is the book that the Boston Globe does not want you to read.
SINS OF THE PRESS blows the lid off the Boston Globe's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about sex abuse and the Catholic Church.
While the Globe would want you believe that its paper's reporting was a carefully impartial chronicle of abuse and cover-ups by Church officials, this fast-paced, eye-opening, and meticulously researched book uncovers something entirely different.
Using actual images of headlines, photos, and editorial cartoons from the Globe archives, Sins of the Press exposes:
* How the Globe's reporting was only the culmination of a relentless, decades-long campaign against the Catholic Church for ideological reasons;
* How the Globe flagrantly misled its readers about the Church's response to abuse complaints;
* How the Globe has dismissed abuse and cover-ups in other institutions;
* How the Globe has routinely celebrated child molesters in its pages over the years;
* How the Globe frequently promoted an author who supported incest between fathers and daughters;
* How the Globe was flat-out erroneous in its reporting;
* How the Globe facilitated the foundation of the notorious gay pedophile group NAMBLA;
* The truth about Cardinal Law and his response to cases of abusive priests;
and much more.
SINS OF THE PRESS will obliterate everything you thought about the Boston Globe and its reporting about Catholic sex abuse.
https://www.amazon.com/Sins-Press-Untold-Reporting-Catholic/dp/1511852593
TheMediaReport.com has surveyed every article that New York Times National Religion Correspondent
Laurie Goodstein has written (or co-written) this decade and has found that while Goodstein has composed
dozens of articles about sex abuse in the Catholic Church, she has authored exactly
zero articles on abuse elsewhere.
TheMediaReport.com has identified all articles written or co-written by Laurie Goodstein in the New York Times between January 1, 2010, and July 1, 2017.
Imbalance at the Grey Lady
101 of those articles have specifically trumpeted the issue of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
0 have addressed sex abuse in any other religious institution.
Not even a single article by Laurie Goodstein this decade has headlined sex abuse in any other religious organization. Nothing from Goodstein about child abuse in the
Orthodox Jewish community. Nothing about abuse in the
Muslim community. Nothing about child abuse among
Evangelicals. Nothing about child abuse among
Baptists.
In other words, being the "National Religion Correspondent" for the New York Times is really code for being the Times' principle obsessor – among the many there who obsess – about old cases of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
The disparity is glaring.
Ignoring other aspects of the abuse story
Also notably absent from Goodstein's recent coverage are other important aspects of the Catholic Church child abuse narrative:
- the widespread prevalence of false accusations and the fact that nearly half of those accused nowadays are dead;
- the troubling financial and operational relationship between Church-suing contingency lawyers and the anti-Catholic group SNAP;
- the injustice that accused priests find themselves in trying to defend against acts alleged to have been committed many decades ago;
- the sordid histories and hateful motivations of dissident priests and SNAP members who have attacked the Church; and
- the unprecedented measures that the Catholic Church in the United States has taken in the last two decades to make the Church the safest environment in the world for children today.
As we have often stated before, it is well known that the New York Times editorial policies stand in heated opposition to the Catholic Church on nearly every "hot-button" social issue, whether it be gay "marriage," abortion, or birth control.
And in the end, Laurie Goodstein is simply carrying the water for her struggling employer, which proudly boasts of its
animus for the Catholic Church and is using the issue of decades-old cases of abuse to bludgeon it for not being sufficiently left-wing on issues of sexuality.
[Important note: There was
an article published by Goodstein on March 7, 2010, entitled, "Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse." However, the "abuse" cited in the article has nothing to do with sex abuse. Sex abuse, rape, and molestation are not mentioned in the article
at all. Instead, the article addresses the alleged "abusive environment" (social/emotional/mental) of the Church of Scientology.]
