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Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters

December 8, 2020 by Christopher Heimerman

CHICAGO – Adam Rhodes, the social justice reporter for the Reader, said the importance of re-examining how we cover anti-LGBTQ groups is matched by a reckoning with how we cover the gay community. “The media industry has just started to give a shit about trans people,” he said. “We’ve been trained to not care about them.” The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 70 … [Read more...] about Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters

How Cincinnati news media reported a baseball broadcaster’s anti-gay slur

September 29, 2020 by Zachary Jarrell

When Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman got caught on a hot mic in August using an anti-gay slur, Megan Mitchell, an openly lesbian reporter and anchor at WLWT in Cincinnati, hoped her colleagues in the media would realize why it was an important story to cover. It wasn’t just about the slur, she told GJR. “I think there needs to be more understanding about how … [Read more...] about How Cincinnati news media reported a baseball broadcaster’s anti-gay slur

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