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9/06/00 12:50 p.m.
New York Times Eats Crow
And you heard it on NRO first.
By Melissa Seckora, NR editorial associate
The New York Times issued an extraordinary correction today that seemed to take
back most of a front-page story printed August 29, "Scouts' Successful Ban on
Gays is Followed by Loss in Support," and a follow-up editorial which was
printed on Sunday. The correction confirmed my story Friday on NRO that the
Times report was filled with erroneous information.
The Times had reported that Chicago, San Francisco, and San Jose told the
Scouts that they would no longer have access to parks, schools, and municipal
sites. Timeswoman Kate Zernike reported that "in the two months since the
United States Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America have a
constitutional right to exclude gays, corporate and governmental support for
the organization has slipped markedly."
The Times's long mea culpa this morning makes no mention of NR Online, but
admits the mistakes I pointed out Friday. I wrote that the Scouts have not been
barred from using parks, schools, and municipal sites, and that "the Scouts
continue to enjoy a tremendous amount of support" locally and nationally in
polls, even in the two months since the Supreme Court's decision in Boy Scouts
of America v. Dale.
The Times's report misstated two cities' reactions to the Court's ruling, as
well as the timing of the restrictions. Today's correction says, "Chicago no
longer lets the Boy Scouts use parks, city buildings and schools without
charge. The public schools of San Francisco no longer sponsor Scout recruitment
drives or other programs during school hours. The Scouts are not barred from
using parks, schools and other sites�.[The restrictions] began before the
Supreme Court upheld the ban in June, not afterward."
The Times also cited the city of San Jose erroneously: "Although one San Jose
elementary school district, Alum Rock Union, does not permit recruiting or
other Scout programs during school hours, the ban is attributed to demands on
instructional time, not the Scouts' policy."
In Chicago, San Francisco, and San Jose, the Boy Scouts continue to have the
same access to parks, schools, and municipal sites that other similar groups
enjoy. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened to change the status of Scouts
in the last two months. And, the Times might have added, a majority of
Americans continue to support the Boy Scouts' position.
The Times also admitted to other errors not reported by NR Online, including a
statement saying that dozens of United Way organizations have stopped raising
funds for the Scouts: "It's about a dozen, not dozens." And, in addition, the
Times inaccurately reported the Roman Catholic Church's stance on the
ordination of gays: "Ordination requires promise to live a celibate life. While
the church condemns homosexual activity, it does not have a policy against
ordaining gay men."
As with all such corrections, it was reported in the interior pages of the
"newspaper of record," while the erroneous story ran on the front page above
the fold and was syndicated in at least five cities around the U.S. as well as
mentioned in various television reports. The correction comes on the heels of a
mea culpa of another splashy front-page story about the North Pole melting that
NRO � among many others � also pointed out as erroneous.
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repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
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has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
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share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
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