Tag Archives: journalism

Gawker Editor Fires Parting Shot

Yesterday Gawker’s two top editors resigned in protest of the removal of their homophobic hit piece against a previously unknown executive. But not before one of them apparently expensed a $546 lunch on the way out the door.

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Huffington Post Moves Donald Trump Coverage To Entertainment Section

CNN reports: The Huffington Post will continue to cover Donald Trump, but the popular news site is done treating him like a legitimate presidential candidate. In a note to readers on Friday, two top editors for HuffPost said that coverage of the brash billionaire’s campaign will be a part of the site’s entertainment section. “Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign …

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Time Travel With Charisma News

Remember back in 2013 when wingnut media went nuts about two street preachers being “brutally beaten by a gay mob” at Seattle Pride? Remember how it turned out that the preachers were actually attacked by a 29-times arrested drunk heterosexual multiple felon who was in the park with his wife and baby? Remember how it turned out that the attack …

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Gawker Media Staff Votes To Unionize

Via Gawker: Yesterday, more than 100 Gawker Media editorial employees voted on the question of whether to be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East for the purpose of collective bargaining—that is, whether we want to form a union. The results are in. Yesterday’s votes were cast electronically and tallied by VoteNet, an independent online voting system. Out of …

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Fox News Ignores Duggar Scandal

Read more at Media Matters.

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George Stephanopoulos Pulls Out Of GOP Debate Over Clinton Foundation Donations

Via Politico: George Stephanopoulos says he should not have donated money to the Clinton Foundation and that he will not moderate the ABC News-sponsored Republican primary debate in February after failing to disclose those contributions. In an interview with the On Media blog on Thursday, Stephanopoulos said that while he made the donations “for the best reasons,” he now realizes …

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Foreign Press Reports On Proposed Death Penalty For Homosexuality In California

It took the news that the Sodomite Suppression Act will go to the petition-gathering stage for the international press to sit up and take notice.

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SCOTUS Urged To Televise Marriage Case

A coalition of journalism organizations and NGOs today urged the Supreme Court to allow cameras in the courtroom during the coming landmark same-sex marriage case. In a letter to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, the Coalition for Court Transparency today requested “that audio-visual coverage of oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases be broadcast live, enabling the world to witness …

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GLAAD Unveils Media Awards Nominees

Via press release: The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD’s work to amplify stories from the LGBT community and issues that build support for equality. Among the nominees: Amazon Instant Video’s smash hit Transparent; …

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Paris Mayor To Sue Fox News

Via Politico: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is planning to sue Fox News for its inaccurate reports on Muslim “no go zones,” she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,” Hidalgo …

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Fox Apologizes For Birmingham Claims

Via CNN: Fox News took time out of four broadcasts on Saturday to apologize for four separate instances of incorrect information that portrayed Muslims in a negative light. Several of the cases involved incendiary comments about “no-go zones” in Europe, where Islamic law supposedly supersedes local law and where non-Muslims fear to go. Other media outlets have accused Fox of …

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Hasidic Paper Photoshops Female World Leaders Out Of Paris Solidarity March

Via Mediaite: Yesterday’s historic march across Paris included over 40 world leaders expressing solidarity for France after the Charlie Hebdo massacre., but if you read this Haredi newspaper, you’d believe that none of them were women. The image that ran on the front page of the Israeli newspaper edited two female world leaders out of the image, originally provided by …

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Fox News “Terrorism Expert” Claims That Birmingham, England Is Totally Muslim

Via the Guardian: An American “terrorism expert” on the right-wing Fox News channel has declared that Birmingham is “a totally Muslim” city “where non-Muslims just simply don’t go”. Steve Emerson made the claim, which may come as a surprise to the hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim residents of Britain’s second-largest city, during a television discussion about no-go zones in Europe …

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Tweet Of The Day – Catholic League

Despite what Donohue claims above, it is Hewitt who destroys in a segment that aired nationwide today on the Salem Radio Network. (Salem is the parent company of Twitchy, Townhall, and other far-right sites.) Hewitt, perhaps obviously, is himself a far-right Christianist, which only makes his truly brutal evisceration of Bill Donohue much, much more enjoyable. Hit the link and …

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Viral Video Of The Day

3.8M views for this year’s news bloopers.

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Media Coverage: AIDS Vs Ebola

New York Times writer David Dunlap compares the US media’s reaction to ebola to what followed after his own paper’s Lawrence Altman made the first notable mention of AIDS in 1983: I can easily imagine the metro desk of 2015 jumping in to follow up on Altman’s account: “Find out who’s died. Call Larry [Kramer]. Reach out to the families. …

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WaPo Profiles Signorile & Griffin

The Washington Post today published a lengthy profile of SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile and Human Rights Campaign head Chad Griffin. Here’s a setup: In 2004, 38 percent of respondents supported same-sex marriage, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll. Ten years later: 59 percent. And today, only a decade after Massachusetts ushered in same-sex marriage, Freedom to Marry says that …

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Advocate Issues Top 50 LGBT Media List

The Advocate today issued a ranking of the “50 most influential LGBT people in media.” On the list are many familiar names including Andrew Sullivan, Frank Bruni, Josh Barro, Dan Savage, Suze Orman, and Glenn Greenwald. (Tipped by JMG reader Kyle)

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Porno Pete Is Very Upset There Were No Anti-Gays At Gay Journalism Convention

“Even the NLGJA panel on religion and ‘gay rights’ was bereft of a traditionalist perspective, while the two openly homosexual speakers—former Episcopal Church bishop V. [Vicky] Gene Robinson and new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ECLA) Bishop Rev. Doctor Guy Erwin—were heralded in the program as leaders of ‘this next wave of the civil rights movement.’Both Revs. Robinson and Erwin …

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CANADA: Magazine Apologizes For Publishing Letter From Matt Barber

The managing editor of the Newfoundland Herald is profusely apologizing after a hate speech complaint was filed against the magazine for publishing a two-page letter from hate group leader Matt Barber. She says that she is an ardent supporter of LGBT rights and is mortified that Barber’s vicious screed made it into her pages. Barber is playing the martyred victim, …

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