April 25, 2011
BY EMAIL: letters@nytimes.com
Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York 10018
Dear Sir:
I am done! As a forty-five year old white male, as a happily married father of three boys, as an attorney with an AmLaw 100 law firm, and most importantly, as a practicing Roman Catholic—I am done reading the New York Times!
Yesterday, Sunday, April 24, 2011, more than one billion Roman Catholics together with a billion more fellow Christians the world over celebrated Easter Sunday—the holiest of days in Christendom—the day on which believers celebrate Christ’s rising from the dead. Yet no article or photograph regarding Easter appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. Slight oversight? Honest mistake? No—rather it was a deliberate act of a paper intent on delivering its own message and too scared to print the “C” word—namely “Christ!”
The fact remains that no one solitary life in recorded history has had a more profound and lasting effect on mankind than that of Jesus Christ. Yet your paper did not deem the celebration of Easter a newsworthy item. Well here is my newsflash to you—as of today I will no longer read nor buy your paper and encourage others to do the same. Surely my fireplace will not be the same, but I certainly will not miss your liberal agenda!
Very truly yours,
Joseph A. Mascia
Yonkers, New York
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 