NEW YORK
Catholic League
Bill Donohue comments on the way the New York Times covers stories on the sexual abuse of minors:
Newspapers are expected to print news, but that was most certainly not the case today with the New York Times.
It ran a story of almost 800 words on the compensation program of the New York Archdiocese for victims of sexual abuse. There was nothing new in the article: The names of the six priests, who committed their offenses in the 1970s and 1980s, had already been made public. So what was the point? None of the priests are in ministry and five were booted.
It could be argued that the New York Times has an obligation to cover everything and anything about the sexual abuse of minors. But that is simply not true, and I will prove it.
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