Times' 'Ignores Rosenthal's Well-chronicled Homo-hating Bigotry'

A reader yesterday took issue with the Times’ obit Abe Rosenthal, saying it covered up some less nice parts of his story:

“The NYT obit of Abe Rosenthal is not masterful. It is an incomplete hagiography that ignores Rosenthal’s well-chronicled homo-hating bigotry. If someone was a notorious racist, it’s in their obit. If they were a notorious gay-hater, it almost never is.

“Rosenthal would not allow the use of the word ‘gay’ in the paper, lamely calling it a political term or saying that to most people it meant ‘happy.’

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