Biased, whoops, Baptist News Service
Published December 20, 2004
So apparently the guy have some training, it doesn’t translate into skill. It was still a two-source hack piece attacking the gay community.
So one third of the new cases in the black community were reported by gay black men. I did a report once on the Hope Clinic in Decatur, it was focused on reaching out to the black community in that area to find more test subjects for possible AIDS vaccine It was a multi-million dollar effort by Emory University because black volunteers to be tested and participate in drug trials are that much harder to find.
Of course gay black men are going to make up a large percent of the reported cases because numerous studies have shown gay men tend to be more affluent and more health conscious then the general population. Gay men are tested for HIV-AIDS more often then straight men, hence our community is going to present a disproportionate number of new cases. The scary thing is that 66 percent of all new AIDS cases are in black men are heterosexual.
This letter proves the BP bias, notice how Foust said it was “quite possible” that more then half the diagnoses could be related to black men, that’s because they want that to be the truth. It’s also quiet possible that more the 60 percent of the new cases in the black community are from heterosexual contact.
Further evidence is they only used one piece of raw information from the press release about the gay community and left out the entire context and got one quote from one pastor. If the were really concerned with “Biblical analysis” I would like to know what the Biblical analysis is on the black community. Are there more sinners in the black community?
If this article was truly providing a “Biblical Perspective” it would have addressed the entire report, as it was written it was just an attack piece on the gay community and Mr. Foust knows that.
The attack ad was a piece of propaganda who’s author used the words “Biblical analysis” to rationalize doing a lazy, biased piece of reporting.
- Biased, whoops, Baptist News Service
- Published: December 20, 2004
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- Writer: Eric James
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Criticisms of journalistic skills might include comment on people who incorrectly use "then" instead of "than" when making a comparison.
It is a shame, but you missed the whole point. Sexually transmitted diseases are spreading and most predominantly among those who practice a sinful lifestyle of homosexuality and extramarital sex. This is not a small percentage difference that we are talking about. Very few people that follow God's standard for sexual relationships contract sexually transmitted diseases. There is simply no way around the fact that the "wages of sin is death." Even people who sin by eating too much face increased health problems. It just happens that the "death" related to sexual sin comes in the form of sexually transmitted disease.





It's too bad you left the journalism field. America needs more correcting, investigative reporters like yourself.
The most important way for an aristocracy/facism to take hold over the general populace, is to push forward the notion that they are morally, intellectually and spiritually superior than the general populace.
Rhetorical garbage and falsehood such as you have pointed out, is one of the main ways to accomplish this.
The most central feature of conservatism is deference: a psychologically internalized attitude on the part of the common people that the aristocracy are better people than they are. It is crucial to conservatism that the people must literally love the order that dominates them. Of course this notion sounds bizarre to modern ears, but it is perfectly overt in the writings of leading conservative theorists such as Burke. People who believe that the aristocracy (elite) rightfully dominates society because of its intrinsic superiority are Conservatives; Democrats, by contrast, believe that they are of equal social worth.
The Religious Right and their misinformation is one of the key ways to gain this illusion of superiority.