by Bach Polakowski | Jul 31, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has a new Ombdusversation on the ethics of a journalist participating in a gay pride parade. It’s a great format that includes a number of talking heads–including NLGJA’s president David Steinberg–discussing the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 30, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
What is it about Washington State and their LGBT-related free speech battles? Today, there’s news that a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing the release of names of people who signed a petition to get an anti-domestic partnership...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
Mediabistro’s journalism gossip blog FishbowlDC has a letter to the Miami Herald from US Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon–the chief spokesman at Guantanamo–accusing reporter Carol Rosenberg of “sexually harassing” him, including making...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 6, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
It’s easy to take the idea of a newspaper allowing a same-sex couple to take out an advertisement announcing their marriage for granted when you live inside the Northeast Corridor/West Coast bubble. But such a move is still a big deal in many parts of the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 1, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
Among the victims of the recent subway crash in Washington, D.C., was Mary “Mandy” Doolittle. Reading the stories about her death, we learn she worked for the American Nurse’s Association, she was originally from Texas, she lived in Kansas and spent...