DeniseGrady

Taking Obama's Side on Catholic Campus Outcry Over Birth Control Mandate

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Breaking with standard Times practice when liberal activists challenge conservative rule changes, reporter Denise Grady gave far more news space to supporters of the change wrought by Obama, beginning and ending with a Fordham University birth control activist.

Clay Waters

As part of Obama-care 'reform,' the administration is requiring religious organizations include free birth control in their employee insurance plans. Monday's front-page story on the controversy by Denise Grady took the perspective of supporters of the rule change, which Catholics and others call an attack on religious freedom: 'Ruling on Contraception Draws Battle Lines at Catholic Colleges.'

Thank Goodness: Obama-care 'Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman'

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:10:00 +0000

The Times' Denise Grady cribs from a feminist group to accuse health insurance companies of sex discrimination, something that will be cured under Obama-care: "Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition."

Clay Waters

Thank goodness. Did you know that the Obama-care "Overhaul Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman"?

That ideologically loaded headline is lurking in the special health care edition of the paper's Tuesday Science Times section, by reporter Denise Grady. She took a left-wing feminist group's word that insurance companies had previously taken "full advantage" of the lack of regulations to discriminate against women in health insurance.