by Bach Polakowski | Feb 28, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
HuffPost Gay Voices is conducting a series of “Voice to Voice” conversations between LGBT authors. They did a few of them for Black History Month. Among them was a conversation between Clay Cane and Janet Mock. Cane is the entertainment editor for BET.com...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 20, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
“They asked that we just use their first names.” About a minute into a story about a lesbian couple reacting to Maryland coming one-step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage, the phrase shows up in the report by WAMU (an NPR station in Washington, D.C.)....
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 17, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
Jim Romenesko links to an interesting blog by John L. Robinson about the language of the newsroom and suggests that journalists–who make their livings with words–shouldn’t feel constrained by pushing the boundaries of taste and sensitivities in their...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 15, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
If you’re old enough to remember the 1980s, then there is no question that you often heard Whitney Houston’s voice emanating from radios worldwide. Only a handful of solo artists in the past few decades could claim to be in her league at the height of her...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 10, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
We haven’t written much about the Roland Martin situation at CNN. It created a lot of conversation inside NLGJA and we did post a statement on our Facebook page. We also talked with the Poynter Institute and Journal-isms. Erik Wemple, the media blogger at the...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 7, 2012 | NLGJA |
UPDATE II: Analysis is beginning to pour in. For a good, meaty explanation of the legal issues, check out Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSBlog. Another thorough look, including the background, is from Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly. For a conservative take on the ruling, read...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 4, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
A passenger has gone missing on an Allure of the Seas cruise, apparently a British man who was seen going over the railing of his balcony and into the water near Cozumel. Does it matter that the Allure of the Sea was being chartered by Atlantis, a tour company...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 2, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a decision by a trial judge to release the supposedly private recordings of the Prop 8 trial that were put under seal. Here’s what the court said in terms of press freedom in accessing court documents...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 1, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett, Uncategorized |
The Jewish Press, a weekly publication focused on the Orthodox Jewish community, has a stinging editorial defending its decision to feature a story about suicide among “religious” Jewish gays. The original story, by Chaim Levin, touched off a great deal of...
