GLAAD and Equality Ohio Demand Action after News Anchor Calls Rachel Maddow an "

[Shana A]

GLAAD and Equality Ohio Demand Action after News Anchor Calls Rachel Maddow an "Angry Young Man"
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 3:00pm by Aaron McQuade, Director of News and Field Media at GLAAD

http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-and-equality-ohio-demand-action-after-news-anchor-calls-rachel-maddow-angry-young-man

GLAAD and Equality Ohio are calling on Fox 19 (Cincinnati, OH) to condemn comments made last month by news anchor Tricia Macke, who called MSNBC host Rachel Maddow an "Angry Young Man" on her Facebook page. According to incident reports received by Equality Ohio, after a viewer expressed offense to the comment, Mackie stood by her characterization of Maddow as male, responding, "You are right. I'm sorry, I should've said 'antagonistic.'"

When another person responded that, in the news business, sexual orientation is irrelevant, Macke responded, "I knew what I was saying." The exchange appears to have been deleted from Mackie's Facebook page, but screenshots are below.

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Petitioning Fox 19
Fox 19: Condemn Tricia Mackie's anti-gay comments
Petition by GLAAD

http://www.change.org/petitions/fox-19-condemn-tricia-mackie-s-anti-gay-comments

[Shana A]

Fox19 Cincinnati and anchor Tricia Macke apologize for "insensitive and inappropriate" anti-gay remarks about Rachel Maddow
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 7:29pm by Aaron McQuade, Director of News and Field Media at GLAAD

http://www.glaad.org/blog/fox19-cincinnati-and-anchor-tricia-macke-apologize-insensitive-and-inappropriate-anti-gay

A few hours after GLAAD, Equality Ohio and many in the LGBT community called for news anchor Tricia Macke to apologize for calling MSNBC host Rachel Maddow an "angry young man" on her Facebook page (and then defending those remarks), the station issued an apology on their Facebook page as reported by Gay South Florida's Steve Rothaus: 

    To all FOX19 viewers and Facebook fans,

    We have received several expressions of concerns about a recent Facebook posting by FOX19 Anchor Tricia Macke on her personal Facebook page. Tricia's response is provided below and is also posted on her personal Facebook page. We also apologize to anyone who may have been offended by her comments.