The Guerrilla Angel Report by Lexie Cannes
Rational thinking (with humor) from Lexie Cannes.
"A man in a dress" in transgender news headlines . . . protocols for mainstream media?
February 4, 2012 • 11:28 PM
Attention mainstream media: the AP Stylebook says this faked example is a no-no.http://lexiecannes.wordpress.com/
Attention mainstream media: the AP Stylebook says this faked example is a no-no.THIS GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Early Saturday morning when I was scanning the news reports about the stabbing of a transgender woman, I crossed several news reports that had the pronouns wrong or in some cases, sensational headlines like "A MAN IN A DRESS STABBED AT D.C. BUS STOP."
These things are, sadly, par for the course. If I were to police the media, I'd never get anything else done — it is fairly time-consuming to confirm an actual gender identity and make the corrections for MY story without letting something else erroneous slip by. This has happened to me.
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Editorial Comment: Coming to TermsBy Martin Austermuhle on Feb 3, 2012
http://mobile.dcist.com/2012/02/editorial_comment_terms.php2011_11_dcistlogo.jpg Early this morning I included a link in the Morning Roundup to a WTOP story of a "man dressed as a woman" who had been stabbed at a bus stop yesterday. I didn't read the story closely and moved on with the day. Later in the morning, Ben provided an update under the title "Transgender Person Dies After Being Stabbed at Bus Stop." In the article, as I and other outlets had done, he referred to the victim as a "man dressed as a woman."
In both the Morning Roundup link and the subsequent use of "man dressed as a woman" in Ben's follow-up, we were in the wrong -- both by AP standards and what many readers and advocates expect.
