Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Mediaite reports:
Newspaper opinion pages are often criticized for having a political bias, but one Florida paper showed the pitfalls of a poorly-executed attempt to tell both sides of the story.
An op-ed published on Sunday by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune defended local school board candidates’ alleged association with the Proud Boys by claiming the group’s members were simply “caring parents” who were being unfairly attacked for their conservative political views.
Oh, and the paper failed to disclose the author is married to a Proud Boy herself. To be clear, the Proud Boys have a documented history of criminal activities and violent altercations that date back several years.
Read the full article.
I was going to excerpt the op-ed but in the time since I started this post, it has been deleted from the paper’s website. There’s a full screenshot here.
An obvious journalism fail from the Sarasota Herald Tribune and also just gross. https://t.co/JnikaR2NUk
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 11, 2022
Their relationship is referenced in this article.https://t.co/gVX8DNM5CO pic.twitter.com/vtziW8qYh2
— Bryan “I am the 2001st Mule” Schott (@SchottHappens) July 10, 2022
I’ll be honest. I know Melissa a little. We have had pleasant discourse. But when fascism and white supremacy are denied, or worse revered, it’s #fullstop. Her public FB profile is full of more than sympathizer posts, like this one. 3/7 pic.twitter.com/aNqarjc6Ti
— WTFlorida ?
??? (@what_the_fla) July 10, 2022
Here she is waiving the flag of traitors. 4/7 pic.twitter.com/MBKXhgJaLj
— WTFlorida ?
Here is #fannypackpb, wanted by FBI, at the same protest flashing the white supremacy sign. 5/7 pic.twitter.com/4XkhYobAdr
— WTFlorida ?
This is the author’s husband. Another fact omitted from the piece without disclosure by the @HeraldTribune pic.twitter.com/SL85BRwd5j
— Kay Mathers
(@KayMathers1) July 11, 2022