"For better or worse, the majority of gatekeepers in mainstream publishing and media are straight," he explained.
So much so that the media was straight-facedly reporting Ronnie Biggs' son paying tribute to Reynolds as "a very, very kind person who was a true gentlemen who made many friends in his life".
Blaming the media is going straight for the cheapest option, a flimsy fig leaf to disguise what most suspect are his true intentions.
With Twitter, Facebook, and other attention-grabbing social media, "cables" are doubtless going, even more than before, the way the mainstream media is going: straight into the IOW, my acronym for the information-overload wastebasket.
It is also of little surprise that the exclusion of certain media groups today is straight out of the fascist playbook when it comes to rising to an authoritarian position and staying there.
I started with CNN's early coverage of the event, followed by Al Jazeera Arabic and English, occasionally switching to Nile TV to get a sense of mainstream media; mostly, though, news has been straight from the different citizen sources.
A recent nonprofit study of the news media in the last 20 years found that the current media are producing fewer straight news reports of the traditional "what happened today" variety than two decades ago, and devoting less coverage to government and foreign affairs.
She was straight with the media, did not pander to any of the stereotypes Australia's political women have been trapped by before – of saints, seductresses, wide-eyed housewives who stumbled into parliament, or "steel Sheilas" who wanted to be like Margaret Thatcher.
The Victory Fund, a group that supports LGBTQ lawmakers like Hill, who is bisexual, has tagged Porter — who is straight — in social media posts so many times that she jokes that she hopes the group might endorse her, too.
First of all, nobody should ever post photos of someone else's kids on social media without the parents' permission ― that's straight out of the "Common Sense 101" handbook.
