Seems that the New York Times isn’t nearly as interested in the antics of feminist Martha Burk as they were last year when she protested at the Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters tournament. According to the Washington Times, “She was a regular on the front pages of the nation’s most influential newspapers — particularly in the New York Times, which featured her in 102 stories through last April.”
But then she only drew 40 people to participate in her protest. “In the face of such public indifference,” the WashTimes says, “virtually every media outlet immediately abandoned coverage of the issue. Mrs. Burk has rated only 11 mentions in the New York Times in the 11 months since the dud rally — a sea change in coverage of an issue that last year was so heavy that the newspaper’s ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, recently described it in the New York Observer as ‘a humiliation for the newspaper.'”
