UNITED STATES
The Media Report
Dave Pierre
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is slowly being exposed as the dishonest and mean-spirited organization that is it, and this reality appears to be upsetting the New York Times.
Today’s paper (Tue., 3/13/12) has plastered a front-page article by religion editor Laurie Goodstein that is largely a sympathetic portrait of the anti-Catholic organization.
Goodstein’s narrative is predictable: Big Catholic Church: bad and mean. Little-ol’ SNAP: innocent and good.
Goodstein ignores SNAP’s lengthy history of deception and nastiness. For example, Goodstein writes:
“[I]n 2002, American bishops met at their conference in Dallas with [SNAP] members who gave emotional testimony about the toll of the abuse. But relations have deteriorated since then, and SNAP members say bishops now refuse to meet with them.”
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