Parsing the Times

A Timely reminder: Don’t believe everything you read in the news.

As a general rule, the New York Times tries so hard to discredit Jewish and Christian morality that it is foolish to trust any of its articles purporting to describe Census Bureau statistics, especially when the latter involve marriage and family. It is best to treat analyses appearing in the Times as provocations reminding you to check into matters for yourself. A prime example is a January 17 Times article entitled “51% of Women Are Now Living Without a Spouse” (online by subscription only).

Now, who would assume this article had any credibility? Of course, not the engaged and informed folks who search for truth in the news. But there are plenty of mainstream media who picked it up and took the NYT cue to treat this story seriously. And I won’t even bother to link to them. They’ve had enough coverge.

The moral of this story, then, is to do your own research; do not always trust what you read in the newspapers. As though you needed to be told that.