RADAR Alert: NYTimes Refuses to Budge

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2005-04-19 06:48

On April 6 the New York Times published the article, Sweden Boldly Exposes a Secret Side of Women's Lives. That article included this description of domestic abusers by Gudrun Schyman: “It’s every man and in every class of society.”

The article did not provide a shred of evidence to support that slanderous statement, nor did reporter Lizette Alvarez challenge or dispute the comment.

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NYT Refuses to Budge: Every Man is a Domestic Abuser

Last week RADAR issued an Alert to contact the Times to request a retraction of that article.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of e-mails, letters, and telephone calls went out to the Times. But public editor Mr. Okrent did not respond. Publishing a one-sided and contemptuous article, and then ignoring legitimate concerns, is journalistic arrogance.

It also makes a mockery of the claim in the NYT’s own Ethical Journalism Guidebook that their “fundamental purpose is to protect the impartiality and neutrality of The Times.”

Because the Times sits at the hub of a vast media empire, and because Lizette Alvarez’ article was so biased and hateful, RADAR has decided to continue and INTENSIFY our campaign.

This week, we’re going to send a message that the New York Times won’t be able to ignore. SO THIS TIME, WE’RE GOING TO TURN UP THE VOLUME.

Here’s this week’s Game Plan:

On Tuesday, telephone the Times at 212-556-7652. That’s the phone number of the NYT public editor, Daniel Okrent. The system will limit your comments to 30 seconds. So just call back a second or third time, if necessary.

On Wednesday, send the editors an e-mail: public-at-nytimes.com.

On Thursday, send off a Letter to the Editor:

Letters to the Editor

New York Times

229 West 43rd Street

New York, NY 10036

E-mail: letters-at-nytimes.com

Fax: 212-556-3622

And don’t forget RADAR’s protest of the New York Times on Saturday, April 30 at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009. 4:00 – 8:00pm. More information about the protest will be posted on the RADAR website.

If we’re not outraged by this article, then what is the point of outrage?

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Date of RADAR Release: April 18, 2005

Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) is a coalition of men and women working to assure media balance and accuracy in coverage of the domestic violence issue. More information can be found at: http://www.mediaradar.org/

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