08-13-2016, 04:52 AM
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/progressive...popMailing&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.
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/progressive...popMailing&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.