by Bach Polakowski | Jan 14, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
If you are looking for some old-fashioned muckraking journalism for your weekend, you won’t have to look much further than the South Florida Gay News investigation of park arrests in Palm Beach. Looking at hundreds of police reports, depositions of the police,...
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 9, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
We’ve waited too long to take a look at the impact of Bil Browning’s amazing six weeks of attention after posting on Bilerico Project about his opposition to donating to the Salvation Army. The post, which has been an annual event, resulted in a huge...
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 9, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Sometimes, you listen to a story on the radio and you keep thinking, “I just know they are about to have someone defend the LGBT community from these charges.” But, unfortunately, you often wait and wait and wait. The most recent example was in a story on...
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 5, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett
Long story short. The Weekly Standard received an ad–IOW, someone wanted the Weekly Standard’s email list and the cachet that comes with the Weekly Standard name and endorsement–from a far-right group advancing an anti-gay agenda. Not...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 23, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
One of the powerful things about journalists being open about their sexual orientation and gender identity is that it allows them to open up their lives in ways a closeted journalist couldn’t. That idea was brought home in this Creative Loafing-Atlanta story on...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 23, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
Everyone has seen the picture. But how did readers react? Thankfully, Jim Romenesko is on the case. Instead of focusing on the reaction, let’s first congratulate Seattle Times ME Kathy Best for her letter to unhappy readers who were upset about the paper...
