tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446190404043833831.post1968970219735147999..comments2023-11-02T09:01:07.944-04:00Comments on Kay Steiger: JournoList's -- and Journalism's -- Diversity ProblemKay Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366285915703503466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446190404043833831.post-47996779912645041702010-07-28T16:51:47.606-04:002010-07-28T16:51:47.606-04:00Emily, thanks right back for your praise! I have o...Emily, thanks right back for your praise! I have often found that women do get stuck covering women's issues -- exactly your complaint about LGBT reporters. It's a tension that often catches female reporters between a rock and a hard place (as I'm sure it does with LGBT reporters): Do they stop covering the issues they see as important to "integrate" more with mainstream media? Or do they restrict themselves to women's issues, LGBT issues, or race issues. In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to choose.Kay Steigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366285915703503466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446190404043833831.post-39896255758751084202010-07-28T16:24:17.046-04:002010-07-28T16:24:17.046-04:00Kay, THANK YOU for saying this. It is by far the m...Kay, THANK YOU for saying this. It is by far the most productive and most accurate criticism anyone could make on the basis of the JournoList leaks, and I'm so glad that someone has said it, and that you're willing to draw broader lessons from this fiasco beyond "right-wing conspiracies are ridiculous."<br /><br />LGBT journalists: my experience has been that, like women journalists who tend to cover women's issues or write for women's/feminist publications, LGBT journalists tend to be sequestered in the LGBT media. When I was a CP intern and went to the Hill to cover Barney Frank's press conference re-introducing ENDA in the House: with the exception of myself and I think maybe one WaPo reporter, everyone there was from the queer press. And I was certainly the only woman in the room wearing a men's dress shirt who wasn't representing an LGBT publication. Maddow is, I think, an astonishingly rare exception to the rule that gay journalists write for the gay press. I can think of a few others, like Jonathan Capehart, but it's not exactly common.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01730345398931474607noreply@blogger.com