Is The New York Times Too Gay?

The NYT "public editor" Daniel Okrent thinks he's being cheekily forthright by admitting the New York Times is a liberal newspaper. (Quite true, of course.) Unfortunately, his prime example stinks: gay marriage. The NYT is far too "balanced" on gay issues, feeling for years that any stories about gays must include hate-filled diatribes from far-right wackos like Gary Bauer so the NYT won't be accused of being lefties. That's not balance; that's bigotry. Write Okrent at public@nytimes.com and tell him you wish they'd be more "balanced" on black issues and always quote David Duke and the KKK and more "balanced" on Jews by always quoting Rev. Farrakhan and...well, you get the idea.