Archive for category: Journalism

Lying about gay money, with the best of intentions (‘New York Times’ edition)    (2012.01.09)

The Times’s Tanzina Vega is the latest to perpetuate a disgraceful tradition of taking what marketers say about the “lucrative” gay community at face value

DailyXtra.com    (2012.01.07)

Xtra threatens to launch a new daily-news site. What odds do you give they’ll do everything wrong?

Chris Spring bobsleigh accident: Liveblog of conference call with reporters    (2012.01.06)

Liveblog of conference call with press after Chris Spring crashed his bobsleigh in Germany

Ask Rick Mercer about his man(se)    (2011.12.05)

The Star’s gullible reporter Emily Mathieu takes rich gay TV star Rick Mercer’s word for it about his house. But what about the house he now lives in, which he and his producer/husband reportedly bought in cash?

Journos unable to diagnose why gay blogs lose money    (2011.12.05)

Of course gay blogs don’t make money. Their owners don’t know their own industries, have bad taste, and suicidally insist on doing what is known not to work. Journos covering the topic are just as baffled

Those poor lesbian moms    (2011.11.16)

Denise Balkissoon on lesbian moms: “Considering… the fact that women on average earn lower salaries.” I ask: Lower than whom?

Borked Unicode: Tips for journalists on writing clean copy    (2011.11.15)

Months in the making, today I’m releasing Borked Unicode, a pop-up blog that aims to teach hacks (i.e., journalists) the minimum they need to know about Unicode. The goal is to make it possible for hacks to write clean copy.

Brooke Alvarez wouldn’t make this mistake    (2011.10.20)

At John Semley’s level of mediocrity, he fits right in. And did you know Toronto has “indie rep cinemas”?