Tag Archives: journalism

Yesterday the New York Post published a terrifying full-page front cover photo of a man who had just been pushed onto the subway tracks by an apparently mentally ill person. In the photo, the downtown-bound Q train is about twenty feet away from the victim, who was killed instantly a moment later. The Post has since come under widespread criticism …

In an update to their style guide for reporters, today the Associated Press officially discouraged the usage of the word “homophobia.”  The update reads: phobia An irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness. Examples: acrophobia, a fear of heights, and claustrophobia, a fear of being in small, enclosed spaces. Do not use in political or social contexts: homophobia, …

Chelsea Clinton recorded a spot in support of Washington state’s Referendum 74 but NBC News prevented its airing because she works for them as a journalist. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Clinton, a vocal proponent of marriage equality, cut the video for a group supporting the Washington state measure, as well as a second video for another group. But NBC, …

Two days ago polling prognosticator Nate Silver offered to make a $1000 election bet with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.  Silver’s overlords at the New York Times are taking a dim view. From their Public Editor Journal: Whatever the motivation behind it, the wager offer is a bad idea – giving ammunition to the critics who want to paint Mr. Silver …

Out Magazine is teasing out the names on their 18th annual ranking of the most 100 influential LGBT Americans. In the first batch of names is my pal and SiriusXM host, Michelangelo Signorile. Our congrats to Mike!  Hit the link for more names.

“It is improbable that the framers of the Constitution anticipated a situation in which the press were entirely given over to seditious, anti-American policies. If they had, it is likely that their modus operandi would be similar to that for any faction found guilty of high crimes. Trials for treason and the requisite sentences would apply, and I would have …

“In a Washington Post column headlined ‘Silence Is Golden on Gay Issues,’ my longtime colleague and friend Jonathan Capehart heralds it as ‘a great thing’ that gay issues weren’t discussed in the presidential debates this year. The Human Rights Campaign’s Fred Sainz agrees, telling Capehart, ‘What we’re seeing is proof positive that gay issues aren’t the wedge they used to …

Entertainment Weekly reports that Clark Kent is quitting the Daily Planet to launch his own version of the Huffington Post. The embattled world of print journalism has lost one of its most respected voices. In this month’s issue of Superman, crime reporter Clark Kent will leave his job at The Daily Planet, after growing more and more disgusted with the …

“The Wall Street Journal has been publishing op-eds from 10 Romney Campaign advisers without disclosing the writers’ campaign role.”

Today Fox News inadvertently aired a suicide during a live broadcast when the suspect in a police chase the network was following jumped from his vehicle and shot himself in the head. Moments later host Shepard Smith issued a profuse apology, which is below. (Via Igor Volsky at Think Progress)

Mona Eltahawy was released from the NYPD’s Central Booking this afternoon after being held for 22 hours following her arrest for defacing one of Pam Geller’s anti-Islam billboards in the Times Square subway station. She’s been charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti. Her tweets since being released are interesting.

Well-known activist/journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested tonight after spray-painting one of Pam Geller’s anti-Islam billboards in the Times Square subway station. One of Geller’s supporters was apparently lurking nearby and attempted to intervene, spurring a shoving confrontation with Eltahawy, who was also arrested during last year’s riots in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, where she suffered a broken arm and hand during …

Every day of the convention the text of the speeches made from the podium are emailed to us in advance and printed copies from each speaker are placed in the DNC arena press room in the late afternoon. Speakers rarely deviate much from their prepared remarks and when they do, reporters take more notice. No advance copy of the president’s …

I met these aspiring journalists yesterday when they covered the first LGBT Caucus. They are twelve and fourteen years old. There’s our hope for the future, right there in their faces and minds.

I’ve moved down from my previous perch above Fox News into the massive and charmingly titled “Unassigned Media Room” where reporters from outlets who didn’t fork out for luxury boxes are filing their stories. Brazil’s O Globo crew is sitting across from me. To my right is a VERY LOUD Japanese news team. Events from the main floor are being …

Free Republic is doing backflips over a blog that wrongly claims that the Village Voice has ceased publication. In fact, the Voice is merely moving out of its longtime office building next spring due to the expansion of the high school next door. Putting that silly lie aside, here’s how the blog author characterizes alternative media: All that was left …

Two years ago I told you about my longtime dear friend Leif Wauters (above left), who was forced to move from San Francisco to New Zealand in order to stay with his Kiwi husband, who had to leave the United States due to DOMA. In a brighter turn of events, Leif has just been named the editor of New Zealand’s …

And it turns out that the part of the San Francisco Chronicle story that most enraged some local Catholics wasn’t true. Sister Barbi Mitzah responds in the comments to the correction: You only wrote about this and the made-up story because it sensationalizes your story. Personally, I’ve seen better journalism on a box of cheerios. Next time you want to …