You probably know that the New York Times has the dubious reputation of leaning strongly to the left side of the political / moral spectrum. The Times endorsed Dwight Eisenhower back in 1956. That was the last time the editorial board endorsed a Republican. I find it hard to believe that objectively speaking, they could not find any Republican since then worth endorsing. But it has not always been that way.
At least according to Michael Goodwin, chief political columnist for The New York Post. He gave a lecture back in April at the Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, a lecture reprinted in the current issue of the college’s Imprimis, “The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards.”
Goodwin writes that he grew up at The New York Times. He started working there immediately out of college. But in those days, a man by the name of Abe Rosenthal was the editor and, according to Goodwin, Rosenthal practiced “zero tolerance” toward conflicts of interest and reporters’ opinions. I took a journalism class in high school and had a dozen articles published in the local newspaper, so I’m familiar with such “journalism ethics.”
Rosenthal once fired a reporter because she covered (while at a different newspaper) a political figure with whom she had had an affair and accepted gifts from him. You can’t be objective in that situation and Rosenthal had a “zero tolerance” policy. According to Goodwin, Rosenthal had a similar policy toward expressing one’s political opinions in the news sections of the paper. They belonged on the editorial page.
Goodwin writes that Rosenthal knew that reporters leaned to the left and tried to sneak their views into their reports. So, he saw his job as steering the paper to the right. “‘That way,’ he said, “‘the paper would end up in the middle.’” With that mentality, he kept the paper “straight.” He even wanted his epitaph to read, “He kept the paper straight.”
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Goodwin thought that last part was a joke and related it as such in a column he wrote back in 2016. But Rosenthal’s wife contacted him and reported that it was not a joke and sent a photograph to prove it. According to wikipedia.org, that is correct; his grave is in the Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
God called on Israel to keep their religion and ethical lives “straight,” moving neither to the right nor the left. Deuteronomy 5:32 says: “So you shall observe to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.“ (See also Deut. 17:11, 20; 28:14; Joshua 1:7; 23:6; 2 Kings 22:2; 2 Chronicles 34:2; Proverbs 4:27).
It has only been in modern times when the “right” symbolized conservative thought and the “left” symbolized progressive thought. What God meant was, do not deviate from His commandments. Obey what He commands and don’t presume on yourself to have authority that you do not have.
As Christians, preachers, and elders, let us be determined to keep our congregations “straight,” neither to the left nor to the right.
–Paul Holland
