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How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - RgrF - 08-13-2016
Despicable: Daily Beast outs closeted gay athletes at the Rio Olympics. In a truly revolting display, a writer for The Daily Beast used a Grindr account to exploit and harass closeted gay athletes at the Rio Olympics. Nico Hines, who is covering the Olympic Games for the Daily Beast, used the gay dating app Grindr...
ARTICLE08.11.16 6:27 PM ET
A Note From the Editors
Today, The Daily Beast took an unprecedented but necessary step: We are removing an article from our site, “The Other Olympic Sport In Rio: Swiping.”
The Daily Beast does not do this lightly. As shared in our editor’s note earlier today, we initially thought swift removal of any identifying characteristics and better clarification of our intent was the adequate way to address this. Our initial reaction was that the entire removal of the piece was not necessary. We were wrong. We’re sorry. And we apologize to the athletes who may have been inadvertently compromised by our story.
Today we did not uphold a deep set of The Daily Beast’s values. These values—which include standing up to bullies and bigots, and specifically being a proudly, steadfastly supportive voice for LGBT people all over the world—are core to our commitment to journalism and to our commitment to serving our readers.
As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. The article was not intended to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn’t matter, impact does. Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error.
We were wrong. We will do better.
Earlier the slezebag who started the whole brou-ha-ha had this to say:
For the record, I didn’t lie to anyone or pretend to be someone I wasn’t—unless you count being on Grindr in the first place—since I’m straight, with a wife and child. I used my own picture (just of my face…) and confessed to being a journalist as soon as anyone asked who I was.
- See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/08/daily-beast-targets-gay-olympic-athletes-for-harassment/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=progressivesecularhumanist_081216UTC010801_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=52047910&spUserID=MTA2MTUwNDg1MDgxS0&spJobID=982135908&spReportId=OTgyMTM1OTA4S0#sthash.mIBd4Ym7.dpuf
The Beast editors were silent about Nico Hines future with the organization.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - Onamuji - 08-13-2016
RgrF wrote:
The Beast editors were silent about Nico Hines future with the organization.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-fi-oly-daily-beast-grindr-lgbt-20160812-snap-story.html
The Daily Beast was asked to share details about the editorial process that led to the publication of the story, but it declined, directing the Times to the statement.
Good publicity after a big blowup that brought a massive amount of new traffic to the site. No boycott. Their advertisers must be very pleased.
The Beast is not an organization known for its ethical reporting. An editor probably came up with the idea. An editor surely approved this in advance and an editor approved it for publication. I would not put it past them to have planned for this option if it blew up.
"As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. "
So, they'll ride it for awhile and then I give it no more than two weeks before Nico Hines gets a raise or promotion where they can say he's no longer in that field of reporting without revealing that they rewarded him for taking the fall.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - Speedy - 08-13-2016
Common knowledge. Heck, the wrestlers can't wait to get their hands on each other. The boxers seem to always end up cheek-to-cheek at some point in a match. And don't think the basketballers and their hand-checks aren't getting a little too familiar. They all might be a little more honest if they competed dressed like the Greeks originally did, with the side benefit that TV ratings would go up.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - deckeda - 08-13-2016
Speedy's desire to see gladiators playing touch football aside, I wonder if the Daily Beast has "a newsroom." Seems just as likely that writers for these blogs are assigned to cover a topic and then post it. Who needs editors any more, right?
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - gabester - 08-13-2016
The only people who care who is gay and who is straight are those who have been unable to come to terms with their own deeply repressed feelings (a few) and bully/cow others into perpetrating homophobia for lack of a better pastime.
This is utterly reprehensible if you're past the age and level of social responsibility of a teenage boy. And if you know any teenage boys, their time would be better served getting in touch with and understanding their own feelings than projecting ridiculous machismo.
Good for the Beast in following up but bad form to begin with. Not everything is newsworthy. And we as the news-consuming public should stop being so focused on the personal predilections of others and start paying attention to the things that really matter - policy changes, executive actions, corporate behavior. Those things aren't sexy, but they really make a difference in everyone's lives. Stop seeking momentary titillation at the expense of the public good.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - samintx - 08-13-2016
LBGTQ: Trump said this at his nomination. The "Q" seems derogatory to me. Is it an OK abbreviation?
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - $tevie - 08-13-2016
There was nothing good about Daily Beast taking that article down. What is good about a site publishing "an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists"?
First they got caught, then they edited it, then they apologized for it, then they finally took it down. This only after an enormous hue and cry from all sides on social media. Left to their own devices the article would probably still be sitting on their site, garnering lots of hits for its controversial nature and lacking the crocodile tears they splashed over it after getting in trouble.
No praise for Daily Beast. In fact, I've blocked them on social media. Buh bye.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - Mr Downtown - 08-13-2016
samintx wrote:
LBGTQ: Trump said this at his nomination. The "Q" seems derogatory to me. Is it an OK abbreviation?
Sometimes it stands for Questioning. Sometimes it stands for Queer, reclaimed by those of us proud to be different as a way of reducing the sting when it's used.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - cbelt3 - 08-13-2016
Tabloid media. When in print , they had an excellent use ... Wrapping fish guts. Now that they are online , they have no use.
Re: How ALL media ought to react when they go over the line - SteveG - 08-13-2016
Mr Downtown wrote:
[quote=samintx]
LBGTQ: Trump said this at his nomination. The "Q" seems derogatory to me. Is it an OK abbreviation?
Sometimes it stands for Questioning. Sometimes it stands for Queer, reclaimed by those of us proud to be different as a way of reducing the sting when it's used.
'Gay' is briefer, nicer and easier to say. Just sayin'.