Judge Lopez's Husband Shares Many Friends With Pinch Sulzberger
By MassNews Staff
            Maria Lopez's husband, Steve Mindich, owner of the free "Boston Phoenix" newspaper, has many friends in common with the Chairman of "The New York Times Company", Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.

Renee Loth
            Renee Loth worked for twenty-years, from about age 27 to 47, for Mindich and Sulzberger. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in journalism, she spent about five years working in neighborhood newspapers.
            Then she joined Mindich at the Phoenix where she served as "political reporter" for five years. She then went to the Globe where she had various jobs, ending as Deputy Editorial Page Editor.
            The story which announced her appointment in May 2000 had as its third word that she was a "veteran political journalist." What that means is that serving as a political reporter at the Phoenix made her a "veteran" in political journalism.
            Although everyone would applaud giving more opportunity to women, it is clear that the Loth appointment was only because someone determined that a "token" was needed in the position. When she was asked what changes she wished to make, she replied she wanted to give more of a voice to immigrants and women. She wanted a section that was "tolerant, compassionate, innovative, fair and smart."
            If one needs advice in the future about policies on the Middle East, nuclear weapons or whether we should raise interest rates, he or she can always discover what Pinch’s person in Boston thinks. Just read the editorial page at the Globe. They'll be comforted to know that Renee Loth gained lots of experience in those areas while working as political reporter at the Boston Phoenix.

At Home with Porn
            When Loth took charge of the Editorial Page, the scandal of Fistgate had just broken in Massachusetts. This state was the foremost supporter in the entire nation of homosexuality in the schools. This occurred under the new Governor, Republican William Weld. He was moderate on economic issues and a liberal on social issues. In 1990, he narrowly defeated the Democrat candidate, the President of Boston University, John Silber, a conservative on most issues.
            Weld was indebted to the homosexual activists who had been helpful during his campaign. Therefore, he began supporting them and their causes, including the new concept of homosexual clubs in schools, which became known as gay/straight alliances.
            It quickly became clear that a number of schools were giving explicit instruction in homosexual sex to some students. Someone had decided those students were “different.” Many, if not most schools, encouraged those students to attend social events at private homosexual organizations where older men (in their twenties) would show them how. This was unknown to their parents. No one in authority wanted to hear about this.
            Pinch Sulzberger had his people in place at the time of the Fistgate scandal. Richard Gilman had been Publisher since 1999 and Renee Loth had just been installed as editor of the opinion page. Their main object was damage control, how to keep the “homophobes” from endangering the “progress” that had taken place in the schools under Weld and Cellucci (and later Jane Swift when Cellucci resigned so she could become Governor).
            They didn’t lose any time. Renee Loth wrote an editorial about Fistgate on May 20, 2000, entitled “Attack on sex education” which made it clear what she thought about those in opposition.
            There was really no problem with Fistgate, she wrote: “They [the teenagers] were asking the sorts of things teenagers ask every day ...” Many immediately wondered, where had she grown up? At the Boston Phoenix?
            There's no question that Judge Lopez, her husband Jeff, the new editor Renee Loth and Pinch Sulzberger all had one thing in common. They all love raunchy, pornographic sex.