E-mailed to me by Jayelle:
GLAAD protests a segment of the Univision talk show “Casos de Familia” that aired March 25. GLAAD says:
The program was insensitive, unfair and unbalanced. During the taping, the hostess, Judith Grace, insulted the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community by making statements such as: “Would it be that all [homosexuals] have been abused, hence their sexual preference?” — and — “Let’s stop our relatives from touching/abusing our own children so they do not end up like this.”
GLAAD responds by asking people to tell the producers “that their sensationalistic and unscientific presentation of reparative therapy only serves to further harm and marginalize the LGBT Latina/o community.”
XGW is “glad” that GLAAD is not attempting to silence the producers. Instead, the campaign seeks to assign to the producers a responsibility for producing fair and balanced content.
But is it reasonable to expect every TV producer to demonstrate the same balance, or is it more appropriate for the overall content of network programming, by opinionated producers with different biases, to balance out?
“But is it reasonable to expect every TV producer to demonstrate the same balance, or is it more appropriate for the overall content of network programming, by opinionated producers with different biases, to balance out?”
I would say no since it would on the right of free speech. It is rather unrealistic to force a media group of solely publishing ‘unbiased’ or balanced report if such things exist. However, these extremist groups that spew such gross misinformation should accept suffering the social consequences of their words and be exposed for their hypocrisy and subterfuge. They should be casted as pariahs, extremists with a lost cause, just like how the white nationalists and racialists are currency portrayed in mainstream America. Education is how their lies can trully be overcomed.
The only way to fight massive bonfires is not to extinguish it with water, but with dynamite that can suffocate vile flames of hatred. Fortunately though, they are shrinking with the next generation.
GLAAD’s highly customized responses to incidents recently have really impressed me far more than far more ‘canned’ statements coming from the ACLU or HRC. Example: GLAAD extended an invitation to their Media Awards show to 50-Cent. Of course the Cybercast news service blew this this story all out of perspective claiming 50-Cent was relatively untouched compared to GLAAD’s response to Dr. Laura. Are you confused by my comment? You’d be more confused if you tried to follow the logic of the Cybercast news service.
SOURCE:
https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200403/CUL20040317b.html
I’m still wondering where the idea came from that all homosexuals were sexually abused as children. Maybe someone can tell me where that originated, and why it’s still believed?
Maybe all gays weren’t abused.
Maybe all “EX-GAYS” were abused as kids and thats what turns them into such freaks.
I would love to hear from Hispanics about this, but what troubled me some is that there are a precious few Spanish TV stations. English-speaking viewers have overall balance, but what about Spanish-speaking viewers?
I’m very happy that GLAAD is going for a pro-speech solution.
>You’d be more confused if you tried to follow the logic of the Cybercast news service.
Um, you are aware that CNSnews is Brent Bozo’s Christian, no Conservative, now CYBER news Service, aren’t you?
Brent Bozo (actually, Bozell) was an upper level functionary in the Reagan administration, who developed a new gig for himself by establishing a couple of web sites (Media Research Center, http://www.mrc.org, among others) that, among other things, bashes fags.
I’m sure it keeps him fully employed.