Cable Networks Covered “Reparative” Gay Therapy Study — Will They All Cover Author’s Retraction?
Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all covered a 2001 study by psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer that purported to show that a “change in one’s sexual orientation was possible.” Anti-gay groups claiming homosexuality is a choice have repeatedly cited the study. Last month, Spitzer retracted the study, and while MSNBC covered Spitzer’s retraction, neither CNN nor Fox has done so, according to the Nexis database. Read More
Campbell Brown Distorts Obama Speech To Claim He’s “Condescending” To Women
In a New York Times op-ed, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown wrote that Obama “made reference to how women are smarter than men” in his Barnard College commencement speech, saying he “sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.” In fact, Obama said that “founding mothers” were likely “whispering smarter things” to the Founding Fathers about whether a woman should sign the Constitution. Read More
