by Bach Polakowski | Mar 18, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko
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...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 18, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko
The Bay Area Reporter broke the news on its blog last Thursday, March 11 that longtime openly gay television reporter Hank Plante will retire at the end of the month. Plante is considered one of the first on-air journalists to come out publicly. And he long has been a...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 11, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Predictably some in the mainstream media can’t let a gay story run without quoting some antigay person – no matter if what that person has to say is irrelevant to the story or just downright false. Case in point: The Sacramento Bee and its story in...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Bay Area Reporter publisher Thomas E. Horn (on the right in photo) was in the news this week for more than his comments about the demise of Window Media. He also garnered headlines for being named Honorary Consul for Monaco in San Francisco. Horn met with Prince...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Publishers of the country’s remaining LGBT weekly newspapers have all issued comments this week highly critical of the management decisions made by those leading Window Media, which filed for bankruptcy over the weekend and shuttered its papers in D.C., Atlanta...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 26, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Stephen Jarchow, the 58-year-old chairman of Here Media Inc., owner of Gay.com, The Advocate and Out magazines, recently gave an interview to The Dallas Morning News in which he talks about the travails facing not only his company but the news media in general. One...
