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Media Neglects Rita’s Gay Angle

Posted by GayPatriotWest at 3:10 am - September 22, 2005.
Filed under: Gay America,Katrina Disaster,New Media

In an excellent column on media bias and the coverage of Katrina, Jonah Goldberg has also noticed bias in the coverage of Rita which even your humble blogger missed, but then again, so did the gay media:

The questions raised by unlovely Rita are as painful as they are obvious. Will gays stay behind in disproportionate numbers in this disproportionately gay city? If so, Why? If gay marriage were legalized, could some of this disaster be avoided? Would George W. Bush have responded more quickly if the victims were just a tad less stylish? And, of course: Will the federal government help keep Key West festive?

Why weren’t reporters standing at the ready to caterwaul about the wreckage at their feet? Cher albums and the collected writings of James Wolcott strewn about like beer cans and pizza boxes in an apartment yet to be transformed by the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Now, just read the whole thing for Jonah’s broader points on media coverage of Katrina.

HT: Polipundit’s Lorie Byrd

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

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11 Comments

  1. The Good News Is … Houston/Galveston are not New Orleans

    Tip: Frank IBC

    Comment by V the K — September 22, 2005 @ 6:54 am - September 22, 2005

  2. This might be a witty column if Jonah himself wasn’t so personally homophobic.

    Comment by Gregg — September 22, 2005 @ 10:53 am - September 22, 2005

  3. How about it, Dan? Is Jonah Goldberg personally homophobic or not? I think you met him the other day, right?

    Comment by joe — September 22, 2005 @ 11:30 am - September 22, 2005

  4. I’d like to see Gregg cite some examples from JG’s writing that demonstrate this alleged homophobia.

    Comment by V the K — September 22, 2005 @ 11:50 am - September 22, 2005

  5. He said “Personally homophobic”. That means in-person, V – Gregg isn’t (or shouldn’t be or can’t be) talking about Jonah’s writings.

    But if we are just talking about Jonah’s writings or ideas, after all (not his personal qualities)…..I would imagine Jonah’s opposition to gay marriage is demonstrable. I don’t consider that homophobia (much less “personal”); just error or being mistaken.

    If Jonah has written in favor of bringing back gay-only sodomy laws, OK, I might be more interested, as that (to me) that would be more like homophobia.

    Comment by joe — September 22, 2005 @ 11:56 am - September 22, 2005

  6. I met Jonah Saturday night, identified myself as GayPatriotWest, thus making clear I was gay and that didn’t seem to affect the way he treated me.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — September 22, 2005 @ 11:57 am - September 22, 2005

  7. #5 — OK, then Gregg can describe first-person personal interactions with JG that led him to the conclusion that JG is ‘personally homophobic.’

    Comment by V the K — September 22, 2005 @ 12:14 pm - September 22, 2005

  8. Hm. Methinks y’all may be nit-picking Gregg’s choice of words. Not to speak for him, but he was probably basing it on his interpretations of Jonah’s past writings.

    However, I’d have to disagree with joe’s characterization of being opposed to gay marriage as patently “just error or being mistaken“.

    Differing in opinion, or contrarian yes; but there’s nothing mistaken about some people’s opposition to gay marriage.

    Comment by ColoradoPatriot — September 22, 2005 @ 2:06 pm - September 22, 2005

  9. OK, then. can Gregg provide any evidence beyonf knee-jerk, anti-conservative bigotry that demonstrates Jonah Goldberg’s “personal homophobia?”

    Comment by V the K — September 23, 2005 @ 1:22 pm - September 23, 2005

  10. #8. Gay marriage (in the civil or State policy sense; not arguing religion here) is right. Opposition to gay marriage is wrong. It’s one of those things where people need some time to see what is right, and eventually they will. Thirty years from now, gay marriage will be everywhere and it will be forgotten that we (or anyone else) ever could have questioned it. Now, you are quite free to disagree with me or hold the opposite view – and if you express it, I shall express mine. “America at work”

    Comment by joe — September 24, 2005 @ 11:45 am - September 24, 2005

  11. And as for Gregg and Jonah, let the record show that Gregg never could/did substantiate his belief in Jonah’s “personal homophobia”.

    Comment by joe — September 24, 2005 @ 11:46 am - September 24, 2005

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