Bias Trend of the ’90s: Insulting the Religious
“Corporations pay public relations firms millions of dollars to contrive the kind of grass-roots response that Falwell or Pat Robertson can galvanize in a televised sermon. Their followers are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.”
– Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf, February 1.
“An article yesterday characterized followers of television evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as `largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.’ There is no factual basis for that statement.”
– Post corrections box, next day.