Tag Archives: journalism

Ted Cox: Undercover With The “Ex-Gays”

I’ve blogged several times about straight reporter Ted Cox and his undercover investigation of the “ex-gay” industry. Today Cox writes us to let us know that his entire story has now been posted online despite the confidentiality agreement he signed with the so-called Journey Into Manhood. The article is riveting, here’s how it starts. I don’t remember exactly when I …

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Bill O’Reilly: I Don’t Report On Race Because People Will Call Me Racist

Bill O’Reilly says that he and “other white journalists” shy away from commenting on black issues because no matter what they say, their words are twisted to make them look racist. O’Reilly references his infamous accounting at having eaten at the legendary Sylvia’s in Harlem, after which he marveled that folks were actually well-dressed and well-behaved. He said at the …

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CNN’s Kyra Phillips: Richard Cohen Wasn’t Appropriate Choice For Gay Cure Segment

Today CNN’s Kyra Phillips offered an apology for featuring “ex-gay” whacko Richard Cohen on a segment about repealing a California law requiring the state to search for a “cure” for homosexuality, saying that Cohen wasn’t the “appropriate choice.” Phillips also complained about hate mail she received after the segment aired. After Elton’s Michael Jenson: Interestingly, at one point Phillips says …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Jensen

“It’s 2010 and CNN expects me to seriously sit here and expect that this issue is really still up for debate? It certainly is in some quarters, but those are quarters that at this point respectable journalists should stay out of. I guess this means we can look forward to other CNN segments including ‘The Holocaust — did it really …

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Advocate To Partner With NBC News

The parent company of The Advocate announced today that they have inked a partnership deal with NBC News. Via press release: Here Media and The Advocate, the world’s leading gay news source, announced today their new affiliate deal with NBC News Channel, an NBC News unit that provides content services to NBC television affiliates and other selected news outlets around …

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Obama Disses Press On HCR Coverage

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Washington Blade Assets Purchased

The former Washington Blade staffers behind its successor, DC Agenda, have purchased the assets of the demised title. Most importantly, the purchase includes the paper’s irreplaceable archive of the last 40 years of LGBT history and journalism. Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia, Inc., doing business as DCAgenda, proudly announced today that it acquired the assets of the Washington Blade, the nation’s …

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DADT: Don’t Lie, Don’t Misinform

Today Media Matters and a coalition of LGBT and progressive groups co-signed a letter calling on the media to be truthful when covering the attempt to repeal DADT. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell proponents too often paint a distorted picture of what a repeal would mean. Today, Media Matters for America released a comprehensive review detailing how opinion pages and cable …

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Fox Chyron Fail (Again)

Media Matters notes: “Almost three months to the day since Fox News instituted its “zero tolerance for on-screen errors” policy, the [above] on-screen graphic was displayed during the February 22 edition of America’s Newsroom.”

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Fox-Worthy

“Democrat Scott Brown Sworn-In.” (Tipped by JMG reader Brad)

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Irish Times Publishes Its First Gay Wedding Notice After JMG Readers Marry

JMG readers Vivian Cummins and Erney Breytenback write to let us know that their December wedding in South Africa is the first same-sex union ever to be noted in the wedding announcements section of the Irish Times. Published on Saturday: Vivian Cummings and Erney Breytenbach were married at their holiday home in Hermanus, South Africa, by the Reverend Pieter Oberholzer, …

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How To Report The News

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Newsday’s Paywall Fail

Three months ago Long Island’s Newsday, the 11th most widely read newspaper in the country, shifted their website to pay-to-read. The number of paying subscribers so far: 35. New York Times, are you watching? That astoundingly low figure was revealed in a newsroom-wide meeting last week by publisher Terry Jimenez when a reporter asked how many people had signed up …

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Hope Less

Virtually every broadcast and cable network showed the Hope For Haiti Now telethon last night. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fox News was the lone holdout. On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds …

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New York Times Readies Return To Paid Online Subscriptions

New York Magazine reports that the New York Times may be days away from announcing their return to a “metered” online subscription system in which readers must pay to read more than a certain number of articles per day. The choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the …

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WaPo Watch

Via Media Matters: The Washington Post published in its news pages an article by The Fiscal Times — “an independent digital news publication reporting on fiscal, budgetary, health-care and international economics issues” — that promoted the creation of a task force to reduce the deficit in part through cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. But the Post did not …

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BBC Apologizes For “Kill Gays” Debate

An executive from the BBC has issued an apology for yesterday’s online debate asking if homosexuals should be put to death. It’s not much of apology. From the blog of BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks: The original headline on our website was, in hindsight, too stark. We apologise for any offence it caused. But it’s important that this does …

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UNBELIEVABLE: BBC Asks Readers “Should Homosexuals Face Execution?”

This is unfuckingbelievable. In reference to the Uganda “kill gays” bill, the BBC asked their readers if they agreed that gays should be put to death. From the Guardian: The talkboard post asked users to send in their views to the programme, which goes out on the World Service and is also available online. “Has Uganda gone too far? Should …

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The Right’s Newest Martyr

As expected, the wingnutosphere is rallying around fired Maine reporter Larry Grard, who was dismissed from the Morning Sentinel after 19 years following his “in your face” email to the Human Rights Campaign on the morning after the vote to repeal same-sex marriage. Catholic League: As a Catholic, Grard has a right to hold, express and defend the teachings of …

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Editor & Publisher Folds In Massive Selloff Of Media Trade Titles

Today Nielsen Business Media announced the sales of Billboard Magazine, Adweek, Brandweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and four other titles as well as their film industry conventions business. The new owner is a just formed media company called e5 Global Media Holdings. Not surviving the sale was the 125 year-old Editor & Publisher, the seemingly eternal watchdog of print journalism. From …

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