Plea From NYT Reporter: 'Did They Know How Hard We Worked to Report the News Fairly?' |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 12:18 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, christianity, conservatives amp amp republicans, media bias debate, michael luo, new york times |
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New York Times reporter Michael Luo posted Sunday morning on "The Caucus" blog on his days at the recent Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the social conservative lobbying group Focus on the Family, where his Times credentials didn't exactly open doors of welcome. Cadging about for interviews, Luo discovered once again that not everyone loves the Times. "When I first met Mrs. Crowe, she had been wary after I identified myself as a reporter from The Times. She confessed her suspicions, saying she watched Bill O'Reilly and harbored serious reservations about The Times. I had, in fact, experienced this kind of wariness, sometimes outright hostility, from nearly every person I stopped to interview at the summit. It had gotten to the point that I was even a bit nervous of approaching anyone for fear of rejection. "Each time I experienced a new wave of anger toward the paper, I would try various tacks to defuse their hostility. Did they know there [ Full article ] |
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