{"id":641,"date":"2004-03-16T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=641"},"modified":"2004-03-16T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T08:43:59","slug":"gay-couple-cant-cover-same-sex-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/gay-couple-cant-cover-same-sex-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay couple can&#8217;t cover same-sex issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clay mentions the S.F. Chronicle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/copymassage.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_copymassage_archive.html#107920674542715307\">decision to bar two women who&#8217;ve wedded<\/a> from covering the same-sex marriage issue.<br \/>\n<P>Seems the Chron is sensitive to the charge that married gay couples have a conflict of interest if they cover the issue.  But aren&#8217;t we always asking blacks to cover the &#8220;race relations&#8221; beat? Would we hesitate to send the daughter of a migrant worker to cover a farmworkers&#8217; strike?<br \/>\n<P>Seems to me the Chron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/gradethenews\/pages2\/marriage.htm\">talked itself into some pre-emptive fanny covering<\/a> here.  Shielding yourself from potential criticism is not exactly the bravest stand available, particularly when it deprives you of using people on your staff who have <i>direct<\/i> knowledge of the issues at hand.<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;d be like my boss saying, &#8220;sorry, Tom,  you can&#8217;t write a story about blogging &#8230; you&#8217;re too close to the issue.&#8221; I would argue my closeness is precisely the reason why I <i>should<\/i> write such an article.  (Note: this has never happened because none of my bosses reads my blog, as far as I can tell. For safety&#8217;s sake, though, I pretend they do.)<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s not exactly an endorsement of the paper&#8217;s editorial acumen for the executive editor to essentially throw up his hands and say, &#8220;Sorry, we have no editors on staff capable of correcting biased reportage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay mentions the S.F. Chronicle&#8217;s decision to bar two women who&#8217;ve wedded from covering the same-sex marriage issue. Seems the Chron is sensitive to the charge that married gay couples have a conflict of interest if they cover the issue.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/gay-couple-cant-cover-same-sex-issues\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}