by Bach Polakowski | Dec 29, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
It’s hard not to love tabloid headlines. And, even with the groaners and cheap humor, few papers are better at it than the New York Post. But as JoeMyGod and Gawker point out, a headline on a story announcing a new baby for Elton John and David Furnish was a...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 22, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
On a historic day where Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal is signed, the Advocate just posted another piece of history: the president does his first sit-down interview with a member of the LGBT press (NLGJA’s LGBT journalist of the year, Kerry Eleveld)....
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 20, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A lot of buzz today about news, first reported in the New York Times, that progressive media watchdog Media Matters is launching a “communications war room for gay equality” called Equality Matters, to be headed be Richard Socarides. Their blog will be run by The...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 17, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
For those of you not familiar with LGBT media in New York City, NEXT Magazine is the major LGBT nightlife publication distributed in bars and other venues citywide. HX was its rival for many years, but it is now out of business. Odyssey (originally from California)...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 10, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Not quite a man bites dog story, but close. While large media organizations have long complained about new media and citizen journalists ripping off their intellectual property, there are growing cases where big media is accused of ripping off the intellectual...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 9, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
“Bold Crossings of the Gender Line” is the title of a recent article in the Fashion & Style section of The New York Times. The two opening paragraphs set up the premise: It’s certainly a statement on our times that, in the same month, James...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 7, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Julie Bolcer of The Advocate has an interesting nugget from Tom Brokaw on his views regarding coverage of “anti-gay” groups by the mainstream media. This is an issue we’ve addressed before. “I don’t think you can shut down free speech,” he said....
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 3, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
A quick note about the continuing saga of Chaplains and DADT, an issue we’ve covered extensively. At the conservative media criticism blog GetReligion, Terry Mattingly used one of our blog posts to suggest that NLGJA believed there was no religious liberty...