Chain-Ups, Sit-Ins, and Bad PR: The Media Wrap-Up

What if you held a protest at the White House and no one really notices?  Imagine holding a sit-in on Capitol Hill that was ignored by the three newspapers who cover Capitol Hill like a blanket?  What happens when you hold a press event with a major celebrity who...

A lesson for LGBT news aggregator Web sites

Wednesday, March 10 the San Francisco Chronicle’s political columnist duo Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross penned an incendiary piece about how the LGBT Community Center in San Francisco was supposedly near foreclosure and was seeking a $1 million cash infusion...

Did the Media and Blogosphere Get Played by ManCrunch?

The Super Bowl has been big LGBT news over the past few weeks. Everywhere we turn, there is some LGBT angle. One story, the rejected ManCrunch ad, has gotten more complicated.  While many in the media and blogosphere rushed to attack CBS for not taking the ad, there...