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- Title
Differing Views of Senior Editors and Gay/Lesbian Journalists Regarding Newspaper Coverage of the Gay and Lesbian Community.
- Authors
Bernt, Joseph P.; Greenwald, Marilyn S.
- Abstract
This article presents information on a study related to the views of senior editors and gay/lesbian journalists regarding newspaper coverage of the gay and lesbian community. Responses from senior editors to several items demonstrate a genuine interest in covering the community fairly, although some responses suggest the editors equate or confuse coverage of AIDS with coverage of the gay and lesbian community. There is little indication that newspapers intentionally censor stories about the gay and lesbian community. Neither the senior editors nor the gay and lesbian journalists knew of many instances in which their newspapers decided not to pursue or to kill either a local or wire story involving gay and lesbian issues. Finally, responses of editors and journalists to items included in these two surveys coincide in just enough instances to indicate that the American Society of Newspaper Editors' respondents evaluated their newspapers' relationship with the gay and lesbian community primarily as journalists who shared the professional values of their editors, respondents evaluated their newspapers' relationship with the gay and lesbian community primarily as journalists who shared the professional values of their editors.
- Subjects
MASS media &; gay people; EDITORS; PERIODICALS; VALUES (Ethics); JOURNALISTIC ethics; MARKET-driven journalism; OBJECTIVITY in journalism; ATTRIBUTION of news
- Publication
Newspaper Research Journal, 1992, Vol 13/14, Issue 4/1, p99
- ISSN
0739-5329
- Publication type
Article