About the Author: David F. Pierre
Dave Pierre is one of the country's leading observers of the media's coverage of the Catholic Church abuse narrative.
Readers have cited Dave's work as "essential reading," "a must-read," and "a great service to the Church."
Dave is the creator and author of TheMediaReport.com and is a longtime contributing writer to NewsBusters.org, the popular media-bias blog of the Media Research Center.
Dave has been interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) as well as by other radio outlets and newspapers for his work. He has also contributed to print publications.
Sins of the Press is Dave's third book. His two previous books are Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church and Catholic Priests Falsely Accused: The Facts, The Fraud, The Stories.
Dave is a graduate of Boston College and lives with his wife and family in Massachusetts.
SINS OF THE PRESS blows the lid off the Boston Globe's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about sex abuse and the Catholic Church.
While the Globe would want you believe that its paper's 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 Globe's 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 Church's 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.
