Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Yellow Journalism!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Yellow Journalism!

From ABC News…
Texting Trolley Driver Is Transgendered Male
Driver Tied to Boston Crash Cited Transgender Status Before Hiring
By MICHELE McPHEE
BOSTON, May 11, 2009

From the Boston Herald…
Driver applied for job under different name
Has checkered driving history
By Edward Mason and Dave Wedge
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - Updated 9h ago

This is the lowest form of Yellow Journalism!

Mentioning that he is transgender is nothing but sensationalism! Shame on the writers and shame on the editors.

Would they have mentioned his race or nationality or sexual orientation? No, they would not have mentioned them, then why is it OK to mention his gender identity?

The facts of the case are, he was texting while driving, he broke the law and he had previous driving arrest.

When they mentioned the fact that he is transgender, they brought ABC and the Boston Herald down to the lowest levels of journalism.

Update 4/14/09
I found out today that there have been a number of other accidents by trolley drivers and not one had their backgrounds published by the press. In addiction, the driver was not hired because of affirmative action program as it was reported in the press.

1 comment:

Rhea5/23/09, 7:42 AM
I live in Boston and it was amazing that they would report that this guy was transgender. As this situation develops I am interested to see if it comes up again.
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