Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to gay themed movies, why, there are studies underway to have game themed music, amusement parks, television news and children's books? Books, Mandrake. Children's books?
Mandrake: Good Lord.
Posted on 04/26/2006 9:02:30 PM PDT by edpc
"We don't want to be the '700 Club' of gay news," says Jason Bellini, anchor of "CBS News on Logo," the MTV-owned cable network that targets gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender viewers. "The audience wants us to be credible. There are plenty of other outlets out there doing advocacy coverage."
"CBS News on Logo" made its debut last summer, producing four minutes of news each day for Logo. Courtland Passant, executive producer the CBS News-produced show that runs more than 30 times each day on the network, says the content of the segment centers on gay issues. He notes that recent story topics include a gay-themed children's book, arrests in a St. Maarten gay-bashing case involving CBS News employees, and the discharge of a lesbian Air Force nurse.
Passant, however, insists that he and his staff of five "take great pains to make sure we don't appear to be pandering to the audience. We are not a mouthpiece for the gay community."
"We get our notions of balance and objectivity from voices within our community," he adds. On an issue like gay adoption, for example, Passant says, that means they don't have to put a conservative on air to balance the issue, since almost all of those opposed to gay adoption are outside the gay community.
In addition to "CBS News on Logo," the network produces programming for a number of stations, including A&E, MtvU, Discovery Channel, the Food Network and TV Land. Some such programming, like that on MtvU, is branded with the CBS News name, but much of it is not.
According to Passant, Logo, which partnered with CBS News while both were under the Viacom umbrella, pushed for the CBS News brand name, and CBS News, he says, was "supportive of that."
Bellini, who came to Logo from CNN says the gay news content does not indicate that CBS has taken up gay causes. "I don't think that CBS has chosen sides in the culture war by doing this," he said, adding that all of the networks support the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. "I think they all recognize gay people as part of a diverse newsroom."
Bellini says he isn't the only person taking a risk in embracing Logo. "If we don't do our jobs right, we could be damaging the CBS News brand," he says. "We want to make sure that it's as good as anything else CBS News would put out there."
He says however, that does not mean creating a carbon copy of the kind of coverage of gay issues one would find in traditional media. He recalled an interview with Rosie O'Donnell about her "Gay Family Cruise" in which he interrupted O'Donnell to remind her she was on Logo. "I told her we don't need to hear her making the case for gay people -- you don't need to do PR here," he says. "She loosened up a little after that."
Adds Passant, who came to "CBS News on Logo" from Newspath, the 24-hour affiliate news service of CBS News, the broadcast doesn't inject any editorializing into the final product. "We're just covering stories most news organizations aren't covering," he says. "We take great pains to write the story as straight, if you will, as possible."
"We get our notions of balance and objectivity from voices within our community," he adds. On an issue like gay adoption, for example, Passant says, that means they don't have to put a conservative on air to balance the issue, since almost all of those opposed to gay adoption are outside the gay community.
So in other words, they won't allow any voices other than those of gay activists. How is this not "pandering to the audience" and being a "mouthpiece". Actually, given the gay activist propaganda rife in the MSM, there probably won't be too much difference between the MSM and this "700 Club" of gay activists.
Is this really necessary? Obvious indoctrination.
a "gay" themed childrens book
is like
putting hard core pornography in the children's book section and saying "its for the children"...
In any other situation such sex material targeting children would be criminally prosecuted.
BAAAWWWAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Yeah, but they can't write a straight story on the Iraq war, though!
What's next? Peanut butter and KY jelly sandwiches in their lunches?
Well, Jason, after the last few years, I'm sure that Pat Robertson would just as soon the 700 Club not be the CBS News of Christian broadcasting, either.
Not sick enough of this yet? Some cross to bear for true lesbians then. Though yet a death cult, at least of women. Though that cross born electively with perverts in general.
"We get our notions of balance and objectivity from voices within our community," he adds."
We got Logo as part of a "free"package. I've seen their "objective reporting" and all I have to say is it's as objective as the rest of the crap CBS and Dan Rather produces.
Homo doctrination is putting it mildly.
Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to gay themed movies, why, there are studies underway to have game themed music, amusement parks, television news and children's books? Books, Mandrake. Children's books?
Mandrake: Good Lord.
Eeeewwwww
CBS may have found what it does best in the MSM.
I didn't think so.
Fortunately there is a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic Wet Dreams posing as news in any part of the MSM from homo tv to fish wraps.
He said "staff"....then followed it with "take great pains." Avoid this crowd.
LMBO!!!
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