CV NEWS FEED // A day after CatholicVote reported that The Hill had published a column identifying a flag of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as “a symbol associated with the Christian right wing, specifically used to protest Pride,” the publication erased that claim from the column without noting the change.
The practice of editing out controversial passages without acknowledging the correction in an editorial note is commonly known as “stealth-editing.”
Nick Robertson originally wrote in his column: “The Sacred Heart of Jesus flag is a symbol associated with the Christian right wing, specifically used to protest Pride.”
As of mid-afternoon the day after the column was published, that passage was changed to the following: “The Sacred Heart of Jesus flag has been used by some opponents of gay rights to protest Pride and LGBTQ rights in general.”
The Hill’s Senior Vice President and General Manager Joe Ruffolo did not respond to CatholicVote’s enquiry about the edit on Wednesday.
The Catholic veneration of the Sacred Heart, CatholicVote reported Tuesday, “is in fact a centuries-old devotion associated with the 17th-century visionary St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.”
CatholicVote’s report continued:
Nick Robertson’s June 10 Hill article reported on complaints from figures on the political left about the flags flown at the homes of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito.
The Alitos have been the target of attacks from secular news outlets such as The New York Times, which argued that an upside-down American flag and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flown at the Alitos’ private residencies are “provocative symbol[s]” linked to the events of January 6, 2021. Some participants in those events carried these flags.
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In an article debunking calls for Alito to recuse himself from cases, legal expert Margot Cleveland pointed out that it was Alito’s wife Martha-Ann who raised the upside-down American flag.
Screen-capture images of the claim about the Sacred Heart image before and after editing can be found below.
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