What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared?

I had no real opinion regarding the facts in the Matthew Sheppard case. I assumed the reporting was accurate and factual.

If it wasn't that's a big story. But, many would rather not look into that, for fear of it disrupting both the established narrative, and thus their own credibility.

 

I don't see it as a Times thing. It's a David Carr column. He's their media columnist, and kind of does his own thing and is more than apt to write this topic. I wouldn't confuse that with decisions made regarding general news coverage. Columnists frequently go off the reservation - at all papers.

 

I really hope that was a typo that auto-corrected to the wrong word for me. The alternative is too disturbing to consider.

 

Little-known NYC law is that any media worker in the city has to read Gawker daily. Three times a day one of my co-workers will say, "Did you see on Gawker..." But I hardly visit it any longer. The unrelenting tone and site voice, which set it apart when it first started, just became too overwhelming and too much. Valleywag is the one Gawker site I still read almost every day. Maybe because there aren't as many posts each day or I just like seeing Silicon Valley get ripped on.

 

A woman can be a lesbian and love Tom Cruise, or any man. When you understand that, that'll be progress too.

 

Will "outing" cease to be a thing at some point on the (near) future?

Acceptance pf homosexuality is higher than ever, and continues to grow. If the media is going to cover the private lives of famous people -- and they will -- it's going to be make little sense to avoid this one issue, when it carries no stigma and "no one cares".

 

Sorry, but the "girlfriends" (unless it's Kim Fucking Kardashian, like in the writer's example, or some other public figure) are just as irrelevant as the "boyfriends."

 

Depends on the story, right?

If you get in a public argument, it's fair game, right? (For "gossip" columns at least.)

And, any kind of legal matter, such as a domestic violence arrest, or a lawsuit would put it in "play".

 

Of course. I'm talking about this writer's inane comparison of, "Well, you'd mention Kim Kardashian if you saw Kanye West on a date!"

This may come as a shock to him, but there are gay people who aren't interesting or newsworthy, just like all the boring straight people.