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If you go this address on MSN there is a story and picture of the transgendered model:
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news=326953>1=28103&sil...
Richard
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Also important news there...
That HP & the Half Blood Prince is being delayed until next July, instead of comming out in November...
Requires joining MSN
No big thing, but it's good to warn people.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Fox (Faux) News anchor makes fun of Isis
Subject: Call to Action: Call on Fox News Channel to Apologize for Crude, Dehumanizing Anti-Transgender Comments
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:53:39 -0700
From: Call_To_Action@ glaad.org
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New York, NY, August 14, 2008 – On August 14, Fox News Channel aired a crude and obnoxious segment concerning the recent announcement of America's Next Top Model's first-ever transgender contestant. Isis, who will begin appearing on the new cycle of the popular CW program when it premieres on September 3, was interviewed exclusively in the current issue of Us Weekly.
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett and Us Weekly Editor-at-Large Ian Drew spent the segment gratuitously insulting the America's Next Top Model contestant, using dehumanizing terminology, inaccurate and inappropriate pronouns and offensive references to her anatomy.
While laughing and joking, Jarrett mocked Isis' description of herself as a woman whose "cards were dealt differently, " and said, "That's an understatement! " Drew referred to recent instances of transgender visibility on reality television as "The Crying Game '08," going on to call the show "America's Next Top Tranny." Drew then said that she doesn't look any different from other contestants because "they are not exactly the most high-class group of women." Throughout the segment, Jarrett switched back and forth between male and female pronouns, and both Jarrett and Drew suggested that Isis "fooled" people by "blending in." They went on to make crude remarks about her genitalia and the pitch of her voice.
Soon after the segment aired, GLAAD contacted both Fox News Channel and Us Weekly, calling on both to apologize. Us Weekly issued the following statement: "We apologize if any group was offended by our editor's comments as it was by no means his intention." Fox News did not respond.
The segment can be viewed on YouTube. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_O8y6OLIzzU
Please contact Fox News Channel and call on them to apologize for these obnoxious, insulting and dehumanizing comments.
Fox News Channel
Gregg Jarrett - Anchor
(212) 301-3000
gregg.jarrett@ foxnews.com
Jay Wallace - Executive Producer
(212) 301-5168
jay.wallace@ foxnews.com
Tom Lowell - Senior Producer
(212) 301-3000 (outlet)
tom.lowell@foxnews. com
CaroL
CaroL
shoulda been a blog
Carol.
Your comment should have been a blog. That was truly reprehensible.
I'm definitely e-mailing that swine of a FOX commentator,
and briefly, without profanity, giant capital letters
or multiple exclamation points express my outrage.
Wish me luck doing that.
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
.
That Was SOOO Nasty
To listen to Drew in particular, who would appear to be gay from the manner and mannerisms,demeaning someone who he should have at least some fellow-feelings for. The anchor just confirms my opinion of Fox, FFAAAARRRKK,
Joanne
P.S. I will email a protest. Doubt that it will do any good though.
Fox protests : go local
Don't bother protesting to Fox nationally, protest to your local Fox affiliate. Tell them you're going to watch their channel only enough to note down local advertisers names and then will protest to the advertisers. Networks HATE getting protests from their affiliates and if enough people do this, the local advertisers will make the local affiliates stop Fox from doing this stuff. It's the technique some groups have used in the past and it works.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
hate sells
-----Original Message-----
From: Laika [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:21 AM
To: Jarrett, Gregg
Subject: your coverage of Top Model contestant Isis
...was offensive in the extreme to me. You clearly don't think she has any legitimate
claim to calling herself a woman. That's your opinion, you're entitled to it,
but you went the extra mile with your derision. No swearing here,
no appeals to your humanity, but I just had to say that.
Yours, Laika
From: Gregg Jarrett [[email protected]]
etc etc etc etc etc
Re:
I apologized on air more than 24 hours ago. What would you now like...
a public hanging?
.
Well gee, as long as he's contrite, and took the time to personally
compose that for me. Now if only Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity,
Anne Coulter and Michael Savage would all get back to me.
In other words FOX NEWS ain't gonna change. Hate sells...
~~~sigh, LAIKA
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
.
Public apologies
I think his implicit assumption that you MUST have seen his apology speaks volumes about his ego and his sincerity. He's crap, you don't hang crap, you just bury it.
He, and Fox News in general, have used up all of my doubt. They play this apology game too damn open. They spend a minute or more of million dollar airtime trashing someone then seven seconds on apologizing as if that were reciprocal.
Not all of Fox is this way, BTW. And to be frank and generous, not all of Fox News is so craptastically bad, journalistically. It's just the way to bet. To be fair, Fox is not the only news organization to do this kind of crap -- they just attract more attention by being flashier.
I don't watch Fox News but then I seldom watch TV unless a baseball game I like is on, and then I may watch Fox Sports West if it has the game I want to see. If I did watch Fox News, I'd make notes about the advertisers and consider my actions.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact. But once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is policy.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Good Point
Erin touched on a very good point. Speaking as an ex-member of the broadcast industry, while it is important to make that complaint directly to the 'caster, the power is in the advertisers. To REALLY get the attention of a broadcaster, get the attention of one or more of their advertisers. There have been shows pulled of the air and people fired because the advertiser(s) threatened to, or actually did, pull their advertising dollars. In broadcasting as in many other endeavors, the real power is with the one who pays the bill.
I simply do not watch TV, so can't suggest the 'who' to make opinions known to, but I sure do support the efforts of those who can.
Old Fox