The Media Research Center doesn’t like it when gay people appear in the media. Tim Graham made it clear again in a Nov. 15 post:
On Sunday night’s All Things Considered newscast, NPR anchor Guy Raz celebrated “Protestant royalty” coming out of the closet. Bishop Jim Swilley of a megachurch appropriately called The Church in the Now decided to reveal his sexual orientation because of the burst of gay-bullying publicity. Former CNN reporter Raz welcomed the change and how it must have been “incredibly liberating” to be openly gay.
NPR lavished 12 minutes of air time on the interview — currently a hot and very recommended item on NPR.org — and they also offered a more extended interview online, complete with the minister’s coming-out speech to his church.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Graham added that “NPR also celebrated gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson on Wednesday night’s All Things Considered.”
Neither story, Graham asserted, “offered a single, solitary second of time for conservative critics to speak out.” The greater offense to Graham, though, appears to be that gays were allowed to speak out in the first place.