GLAAD gives CNN a big ol’ spankin’…
CNN, that former bastion of news objectivity (back in the 90’s) is being taken to task by GLAAD for their so-called balanced reporting of LGBT issues. Their idea of counterpoint presentations is simply by putting any knucklehead in front of a microphone who’s anti-gay. That’s the only qualification necessary to provide the opposing view, and GLAAD is pissed:
Is it important for the media to take these groups on? Of course it is. But that’s not what CNN and other media organizations are doing when it invites these groups to take part in otherwise reasonable discussions. The media is elevating their hurtful messages and attitudes to the level of rational discourse. The media is saying that people like Alexander Nicholson, who can speak to real-life experience and firsthand facts, need to be “balanced” by people like Peter Sprigg, whose claim to fame is arguing that being gay should be outlawed. If CNN wants to interview a gay person who believes being straight should be outlawed, THEN Peter Sprigg would be an acceptable “balance.”
CNN and the rest of the media are doing nothing but exposing their viewers to dangerous anti-gay rhetoric when they invite members of these anti-gay groups onto their programming. Starting in 2011, this needs to stop.
Many of us who make New Year’s Resolutions can run into trouble figuring out where to start. So the attached petition makes this a very, very easy resolution to keep. Tell the media that if they can’t find someone who isn’t part of the anti-gay industry to discuss an issue that involves the LGBT community, then the “other side” of that issue isn’t one worth hearing.
The anti-gay groups like to hide behind the excuse of “we’re being silenced because we oppose gays”, but let’s just call it what it is: it’s discrimination, and they’re all for legalizing it. The KKK is opposed to anything that’s not a fit representative of the Aryan Nation, but that doesn’t make their “opposition” any less hateful because they cower behind the First Amendment – just like these other opposition groups do.
Related posts:
- The body count continues at GLAAD in the wake of their favors for hire scandal Not that it should come as a surprise to anybody,...
- GLAAD (among others) helps AT&T buy their way to a merger Well, I have to admit that my giving GLAAD the...
- GLAAD demonstrates how to destroy what little credibility they have left Ordinarily, I have a tendency to run for the hill...
- Chicago-Based Anti Gay Group Heated over "Hate" Label The anti-gay group Americans for Truth about Homsexuality (AFTAH) has...
- No more gay hit lists for Uganda’s LGBT community A Ugandan judge ruled in favour of a petition to...
