Cowardly NYTimes Siezes the Moment to Beat Up Michael Jackson

The Michael Jackson case: the New York Times piles on

It also marks another effort by the Times to extend an olive branch to the extreme right. Nothing so pleases the newspaper’s editors these days as finding common cause with the Republican right. A direct attack on Jackson as a “homosexual pedophile” would be unwise, given the Times’ pretences to tolerance and the generally liberal makeup of its core audience. Determined to join the anti-Jackson camp without indulging in open gay-bashing, the newspaper chooses an alternate tactic: criminalizing Jackson’s childishness....Link.
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