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OMFG. Faces are red at CNN today after the network played a rap song containing the word “nigga” during a human interest piece about an elderly black woman who still drives her car at the age of 103. The network returned minutes later to offer an apology. My guess is that the producer who selected Coolio’s Fantastic Voyage had only …

“These are BP’s rules, not ours.” Unreal. (Via – Towleroad)

What a disappointment CNN’s coverage was tonight. But WOW, did Rachel Maddow ever hit it out of the park! JMG reader Curtis observed on Facebook: “The difference in reporting between the two is notable. Probably not coincidental that one is out and one is not.”

The Awl reports that Long Island’s Smithtown Messenger has created a before-and-after photo essay to demonstrate how the stress of the presidency affects the faces of presidents and first ladies. The projected “after” photo of the Obamas is from Sanford & Son. Oh, but the paper has now issued an apology. So it’s OK!

Yet another LGBT print publication has bitten the dust. The Chicago Free Press, once one of the largest GLBT newspapers in the U.S. has gone under. The paper had been on the “death watch” list since the editor in chief, art director, graphic designer, senior writer and most of the writers walked out in late December because the company had …

The president opened with a dig at Joe Biden’s recent F-bomb then segued into a joke about his supposed Kenyan nationality. Pretty good stuff overall. Jay Leno, not so much.

Either the Washington Post has really cut back on their proofreading team or somebody can’t tell the difference between Malcolm X and Barack Obama. Gawker has the photo that was supposed to run.

California police raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen on Friday after the tech blogger posted a story about the next generation iPhone. Chen had paid a source $5000 for the phone after it was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple researcher. Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for …

Queers United alerts us to a poll on CNN’s homepage asking readers whether they agreed with Obama’s hospital visitation order. This comes only ten days after CNN hosted notoriously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who told viewers that gays could be “fixed”, something for which the network later offered a halfhearted apology. At least the vast majority of those responding …

An Australian network television reporter chased down a father and son leaving a courthouse appearance, refusing their repeated requests to leave them alone and eventually calling one of them a “fucking terrorist.” Because they were Muslim, of course. The incident has caused a national outcry about journalistic ethics. The son had been accused of inciting a bar fight, but he …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.”