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JMG reader Alan points us to this AP story: In a rare and forceful act of advocacy, an Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide. Relatives have said 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. suffered intense harassment, including threatening cellphone calls and nasty comments posted online, after coming …

From the New Jersey Star-Ledger: The NOM agenda reveals the dark corners of a movement that will do anything to impose its will. To stop state courts or legislators from enacting marriage equality laws and to roll back the laws where they do exist, the organization established a plan that seeks to divide and conquer. And kick up a lot …

From the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Britain’s widely-read Daily Mail tabloid, which is a combination National Enquirer / New York Post, today published an unsigned editorial denouncing Prime Minster David Cameron’s plan for same-sex marriage. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are enthusiastic supporters of the plan, quite happy to trample over the vehement opposition of the mainstream churches and many grass-roots Conservatives. But is being …

Today GLAAD announces the Commentator Accountability Project, a campaign to educate the nation’s media gatekeepers about the histories of the hate group leaders and anti-gay talking heads that they place before the American audience. Fantastic idea! Journalists or producers who are on deadline often don’t have the time to dig into the histories of a commentator. Audiences need to be …

(Via Andrew Sullivan)

Paid daily physical circulation is down 200,000 in the last five years. The New York Times made a similar move last year.

The above full-page ad will appear in today’s edition of Roll Call in Washington DC. “Newt Gingrich must be blind not to see the glaring dissonance between his belief that he should have whatever kinds of marriages – open or otherwise — that he wants, and his stated conviction that LGBT Americans shouldn’t be allowed to marry at all,” said …

Clever prankster.

The comments are fun, at least.

Hotel kingpin and Prop 8 backer Doug Manchester has purchased San Diego’s Union-Tribune for $110 million. And locals can expect some big changes. What happens when that brash, bold, confrontational man steps into the newsroom of the region’s largest newspaper? John Lynch, the former local radio executive who will become the newspaper’s new president and CEO, offered a preview Thursday …

The above figures reflect combined physical sales and paid online subscriptions. Digital circulation for The New York Times, which put in place a paid online model in the spring, more than tripled to 380,000. The Wall Street Journal was the only paper with a larger paid digital circulation, with more than 537,000. The Wall Street Journal remained the largest weekday …

From the weekly Know Your Neighbor feature in Hazelton, Pennsylvania’s Standard Speaker, which is probably looking for a new columnist and copy editor. (Source)

The Advocate reports that the El Paso Times has published a full-page ad from a local Catholic priest who is totally washed in the gentle redemptive blood of Jeebus. “Engaging in depraved and unnatural sexual acts will lead directly to the ruin of both the homosexual’s body and soul,” [Father Michael] Rodriguez writes. “Our very anatomy cries out against the …

It appears that the photographer sold both papers the same image.

Hurricane Irene is a juicy gift to NYC’s tabloids (and local TV) who are running wall-to-wall breathless updates on the approaching end of the world.

Andrew Sullivan points us to the above wedding announcement published by South Carolina’s largest daily newspaper. Rather than smile at the image of all those good ole boys freaking out over today’s paper, let’s wish the happy couple our best. (Whoops, smiling anyway.)

Very nice cover from the Daily News. However, today’s front page of the wingnut New York Post shows a woman attempting suicide by leaping from her roof.

Media critics are pointing out Saturday’s unfortunate front page of the New York Post, which depicts quarterback Peyton Manning with rifle crosshairs over his face and the caption “STOP HIM!” According to some, Palin’s usage of crosshairs is unimportant because it’s such a common device.