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Political correctness at the Los Angeles times.(Insider Report)
In February Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed filed a review of the Los Angeles Opera's production of "Die Frau Ohne Schatten." As published in the paper's February 24 edition, Swed opined that "Richard Strauss' epic opera 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten' (The Woman Without a Shadow) is an incomparably glorious and goofy anti-abortion paean...."
Say again? The "epic opera" is an "anti-abortion paean"? What was Swed thinking? Actually, in his unedited manuscript Swed wrote that the opera was a "pro-life paean." But a politically correct copy editor at the Times, apparently assuming the "pro-life" reference was to abortion, substituted "anti-abortion" for "pro-life." The opera is "about children who aren't born yet screaming to be born--not abortion," Swed later explained, according to a Reuters story. "Somebody who didn't quite get it got a little bit too politically correct ... and we had a little breakdown in communications."
The Los Angeles Times published a correction saying that the review "incorrectly characterized the work as 'anti-abortion'" when in fact "there is no issue of abortion in the opera, which extols procreation." But the correction did not ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 4, 2003 700+ words
...continue supporting the Los Angeles Opera, and we look...audiusa.com/ . Los Angeles Opera's 2003-2004...Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, Mozart's Le nozze...more information on Los Angeles Opera's 2003-2004...
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...Angeles Opera. The Los Angeles Opera, which celebrates...its roots back to the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera...consultant--launched the Los Angeles Opera. The debut production...Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten and Wagner's Tristan...
Source: HighBeam Research, Political correctness at the Los Angeles times.(Insider Report)