Saturday, January 24, 2009
Taysia Elzy Dissed By 'Brother' Reporter
Posted by Monica Roberts at 6:03 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/taysia-elzy-dissed-by-brother-reporter.htmlBil from the Bilerico Project, the blog I'm a contributing writer to sent me an update on the piss poor reporting on the Taysia Elzy case. The local Indy GLBT community was not happy about the coverage of Taysia's December 28 murder (and neither was I) and have been working with GLAAD to ensure that what happened in this case isn't repeated in the future.
In addition to praising the reporters that did get it right, they are doing training session to familiarize the Indy media as to how to respectfully cover the GLBT community, and especially transgender people.
However, it has come to my attention that there are still a few hardheads that refuse to get with the program.
One of them is Steve Jefferson, the crime reporter for WTHR-13, the NBC TV affiliate in Indianapolis. He was highlighted by GLAAD on their 'Worst of the National News' part of their website for December 2008 as an example of how NOT to cover transgender people. To make it even more galling for me personally, he shares my ethnic background.
