Sins of the Press: The Untold Story of The Boston Globe's Reporting on Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church

Sins of the Press: The Untold Story of The Boston Globe's Reporting on Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church Synopsis

SINS OF THE PRESS blows the lid off the Boston Globes 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about sex abuse and the Catholic Church.While the Globe would want you believe that its papers reporting was a carefully impartial chronicle of abuse and cover-ups by Church officials, this fast-paced, eye-opening, and meticulously researched book uncovers something entirely different.Using actual images of headlines, photos, and editorial cartoons from the Globe archives, Sins of the Press exposes:* How the Globe has routinely celebrated child molesters in its pages over the years;* How the Globe frequently promoted an author who supported incest between fathers and daughters;* Extensive and undeniable proof that the Globes reporting was the culmination of a relentless, decades-long attack against the Catholic Church;* How the Globe has deliberately dismissed and mitigated vile abuse and cover-ups in other institutions;* How the Globe flagrantly misled its readers about the Churchs response to abuse complaints;* How the Globe was flat-out erroneous in its reporting;* How the Globe facilitated the foundation of the notorious pedophile group NAMBLA;and much more.Sins of the Press will obliterate everything you thought about the Boston Globe and its reporting about Catholic sex abuse.