Monday, April 26, 2010

Does New Paltz Times reporter know that "tea bagger" is a sexual slur?

I don't know. (See the story here.) So I'm asking. Anyone who pays attention knows what it means, and one assumes a certain baseline attention-paying on the part of newspaper reporters. Surely the editor who passed the story through and wrote the headline must know.

4 comments:

kt tobin said...

truly remarkable.

martin - thanks for starting this blog... and alas, under your own name!

kt
ps. good luck on the book sales, celeste says she will lend me her copy...

Dan K. (danNYtrack) said...

Man this stuff ticks me off! The "journalist" twice more referred to the activists using the derogatory term.
Imagine if Conservatives used such a term to describe a liberal movement. They would all be painted as homophobes.

Martin McPhillips said...

If you don't want to become a character in the sequel, KT, you have to buy your own copy.

Anonymous said...

Of course she does. That's what makes it funny!