"Liberal media" fail

[infinitygoddess]

Dear New York Times:

When reporting on something like the possibility of the government requiring insurers to cover birth control, can you please not use a Southern Poverty Law Center-labeled hate group and a group of religiously supposedly-celibate men who have no fucking clue what it's like to be female as a source of "opposition" in this

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[fadedelegance]

And seriously? I know you wouldn't allow the KKK and other white supremacist groups a platform. It is equally not okay to give a platform to misogynists and homophobes. They are bigots too. The end.
Precisely. What the fuck, NY Times? Don't pull this shit just so you can say you're balanced. Balanced coverage means not inserting your opinion where it doesn't belong. It means saving your views for the op-ed page. It means no media bias, except in commentaries and editorials. It doesn't mean we spew hate speech against LGBT people and women.

I know what balanced coverage actually means. For AP English my sr year of high school, it's what I did my senior project on.

And dear God, I've heard horror stories about pregnancy. For not being a disease, it sure as fuck can ACT like one! D-:

[fadedelegance]

*Short* And that dumb bitch--what she said about fertility and BC makes no sense! Preventing pregnancy doesn't mean you think fertility is bad, nor does it mean you view pregnancy as bad. It's simply being responsible for your reproductive system. For example, my parents had the three of us when they planned, ergo the three of us are very much loved and wanted. They planned when they were ready to try to make us. Thank you, birth control! Me, my sister, and my brother aren't "oopses" because of you!

What a stupid bitch.

[infinitygoddess]

If they were really "balanced", they sure as fuck wouldn't be giving known bigots a platform and rely entirely on the real experts for their story. :|

I hate that science is minimized like this where the opposing view is only coming from people who are religiously fundamentalist. Of COURSE they're going to be against this because it's against what their God is telling them, nits! And really, in the grand scheme of things, and in a perfect world, science would easily trump religious fundamentalism every time.

But noo. We have to have fundies be given a "platform" in order to spew their bullshit all in the name of "balance".