[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Tim Toner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Michael Dinowitz
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:48 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] Is God A Carp?
> 
> Well, on one hand I can ask why it was front page other than to show
> 'those
> silly Jews again'. The NYTimes has a strong track record as being
anti-
> semetic.
> But that's besides the point. The article probably showed up in a
smaller
> paper
> or in a news service and was copied by the times. This is also
standard
> practice
> and I can point to stories that came out in many papers that were
false
> but were
> printed anyway. Why? Because each paper trusted the other and
somewhere
> own the
> line someone trusted the source. Not smart for news agencies. They
should
> check
> their sources. They don't often enough.

Oh, I wouldn't be so quick to attribute it to mere anti-Semitism.  The
NYT, trying to be 'more-intellectual-than-thou' has a real problem with
religion in general.  The whole thing smacks of the kind of coverage
that's done of the Virgin Mary appearing as mildew on the side of a
refrigerator in Scranton, PA, i.e., "look at the rubes".  In this case,
there's the local angle and the presence of a Gentile witness, making it
less about a particular group and their 'wacky' beliefs, and more about
'O, the human condition...look at the rubes'.  Basically, insulting
people as a community service.





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