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Today GLAAD announces the Commentator Accountability Project, a campaign to educate the nation’s media gatekeepers about the histories of the hate group leaders and anti-gay talking heads that they place before the American audience. Fantastic idea! Journalists or producers who are on deadline often don’t have the time to dig into the histories of a commentator. Audiences need to be …

Poor Debbie Harry.

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Today’s edition of the New York Daily News features a repulsively fawning 24-page “wrap-around” on newly-minted Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who allegedly “brings joy to millions.” (And who hides millions in church assets from the victims of pedophiles. Also allegedly.) The inset in the right-hand corner is the actual front page for today, which you don’t get to until after thumbing …

“Because you saw what happened to Whitney Houston.”

Tomorrow progressive and LGBT clergy members will protest outside the Rockefeller Center headquarters of MSNBC to express their anger over the network’s routine hosting of viciously anti-gay hate group leader Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council. Via Advocate: “FRC has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for using dishonest, incendiary rhetoric about gay …

Fox News is so pissed about Newsweek’s “Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?” cover, they blurred out Andrew Sullivan’s name under the title. Sully had nothing to do with the title and in fact never makes a “dumb” claim in his article. But Tina Brown’s gotta sell magazines.

The comments are fun, at least.

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)