Tag Archives: journalism

Rex Wockner tips us to the headline from Norway’s Dagbladet.

Mediaite has the story.

Equality Matters asks the question we’ve been asking here for the last year. In November 2010, the Family Research Council (FRC) was added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) list of anti-gay hate groups due to its “propagation of known falsehoods” about gays and lesbians. According to an Equality Matters analysis, FRC spokespersons – including Tony Perkins, Peter Sprigg, …

Igor Volsky notes that the major news networks made no mention of yesterday’s landmark announcement by the Obama administration.

Celebrity PR guru Howard Bragman emailed us a copy of the above demand that the National Enquirer stop lying about the health of Chaz Bono.

The above figures reflect combined physical sales and paid online subscriptions. Digital circulation for The New York Times, which put in place a paid online model in the spring, more than tripled to 380,000. The Wall Street Journal was the only paper with a larger paid digital circulation, with more than 537,000. The Wall Street Journal remained the largest weekday …

Observers note that both ABC and CBS suspended their live video feeds moments before the Oakland police unleashed “flash-bang” grenades on protesters. Obviously, the cops didn’t want their actions transmitted to America’s living rooms. Pity about that iPhone thing, huh?

From the weekly Know Your Neighbor feature in Hazelton, Pennsylvania’s Standard Speaker, which is probably looking for a new columnist and copy editor. (Source)

Three months ago the leading topic was “debt.” (Source)

“I’ve never shared that I’m gay on-air, even though I’ve been out to my family, friends and co-workers for years. In fact, an old boyfriend – now best friend – has always given me a hard time about not doing so. But for the same reason that Zach decided to come out, I too, no longer wanted to hide this …

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Click over for the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association’s interactive national LGBT media map, which shows news-oriented publications and websites by state. A lot of states are blank and the NGLJA invites your input if you know of unlisted titles. (Via – Queerty)

Yesterday’s entry: “blend together.” You get the idea.

Eagle-eyed JMG readers have picked up that Orlando’s WFTV-ABC has edited their original story about public school teacher Jerry Buell. The station’s earlier claim that the KKK had threatened to picket the Lake County School Board has vanished. As WFTV was the source for several JMG posts on that issue and since no other news outlet appears to be making …

The National Organization of Women has come to the defense of Michele Bachmann. NOW, an organization that has received some criticism for its deafening silence when prominent conservative women like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are lampooned in the national press, has come out strongly against the depiction of Rep. Bachmann as the “Queen of Rage.” “Who has ever called …

The best line from Mediaite’s story on the controversy: “Newsweek subscribers, upon receiving this issue, will probably scratch their heads trying to remember when they signed up for a trial subscription to It Puts The Lotion In The Basket Weekly.”

Beginning today, Al Jazeera will broadcast (in English) on NYC’s Time-Warner Cable channel 92. Gothamist reports that this is the network’s “first distribution on any major cable or satellite system in the United States.” (The NYT points out that the network is also currently subleasing space on a DC cable system.)

Shultz has a field day!

“Once a greatly feared investigative reporter, Brian Ross has been reduced to recycling left-wing material from the homosexual lobby. But the pathetic hit job he narrated on Monday’s ABC Nightline show on GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has backfired in a big way. The charge was that the Bachmann family counseling service engages in terrible things by teaching homosexuals how …