by Bach Polakowski | Jun 5, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett, Uncategorized
In an intriguing Bloggingheads video interview, Marc Ambinder spent a few minutes talking about the incestuous relationship of Washington powerbrokers and the role the “gay mafia” plays in helping gay journalists like Ambinder. I’m going to refer...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 5, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
As we enter LGBT pride month, journalists will be faced with the inevitable question of how to bring something new to an event that happens–in many places–every year. Reporters in Salt Lake City got a lot of help this year when 300 members of the Church...
by Bach Polakowski | May 24, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
There’s been a lot of buzz about Gabriel Arana’s piece about his experience in reparative therapy, that was published in the American Prospect. But the Columbia Journalism Review has done a great analysis of the impact of Arana’s piece in Curtis...
by Bach Polakowski | May 19, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
I remember an NLGJA conference session about the coverage of crime. A number of journalists and PR people were talking about how we cover crime-especially crimes against LGBT people–and the comment was made about how important it was for the families of crime...
by Bach Polakowski | May 13, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
The moment it was announced, there was immediate talk of the irony that ABC’s Good Morning, America’s Robin Roberts got the big Obama interview on same-sex marriage because she was allegedly a lesbian. I knew there was gossip about Roberts, but there was...
by Bach Polakowski | May 11, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Based on the reporting of the Washington Post, apparently every religious person in the D.C. area opposes same-sex marriage and almost all of the religious voices are evangelical/Pentecostal African Americans. You’d never know that D.C. is the home of National...
