by Bach Polakowski | May 10, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
This time, let’s go beyond the usual suspects and see how the story was played by a variety of newspapers that don’t always get a lot of attention.
by Bach Polakowski | May 9, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Julie Moos at the Poynter Institute has a great round-up of how major websites handled the news that President Obama now officially supports same-sex marriage. A couple of highlights: And a few others from the LGBT press not included in Poynter’s...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Mara Keisling writes at Huffington Post about last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC where they spent an hour discussing trans issues. In addition to Keisling, from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the show featured Kate Bornstein and N.Y.C....
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 22, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Slate magazine, in cooperation with the website Longform, does a weekly collection of the best of longform journalism. This weekend, they focused on coming-out stories. The first piece is the buzzed-about essa–My So-Called Ex-Gay Life– by Gabriel...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 12, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
The folks at GLAAD have commissioned a report, conducted by the University of Missouri Center on Religion & the Professions, to examine the kinds of media messages on LGBT issues, especially when it comes to religious voices. The report finds that when religious...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 7, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
When will journalists learn April Fool’s should be removed from their official calendars? There is a controversy at the University of Missouri, my alma mater, over the April Fool’s edition of the campus newspaper The Maneater. The newspaper, which is not...
