New York’s former Archbishop Edward M. Egan died Thursday of a sudden heart attack. He was 82.
The NYT writeup doesn’t let even one graph go by without bringing up the phrase “sex-abuse scandals.”
In the very first sentence of Egan’s obituary, they manage to say “stern… troubled finances… dwindling, aging ranks” and “shaken by sex-abuse scandals.”
The NYT has notoriously been tough on Catholics. But sheesh! What a way to go.
Another version was slightly more kind. They stripped the lede of “sex-abuse scandals.”
Not so fast! Soon enough, the words returned.
