Nikki Araguz Update 14 -Going To War In The Chron.com Comment Section

[Butterfly]

Nikki Araguz Update 14 -Going To War In The Chron.com Comment Section
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
23 August, 2010



http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/nikki-araguz-update-14-going-to-war-in.html


As the Araguz case in Wharton continues to a hopefully successful conclusion for us, those of us in the Houston area GLBT community and our allies continue to fight the war against faith based ignorance, smears of Nikki Araguz, the trans community, and Faux News propaganda.

We've already had fun this week gleefully smacking down a slanted Fox26 poll question.

[Tammy Hope]

I pointed this out on Facebook and was summarily ignored. So this is probably a waste but...

and Faux News propaganda.

As much as those on the left love to bash Fox, and even to the extent that this is in whole or in part true, this oft-repeated dig in the Araguz case is sloppy.

Fox26 is a local affiliate of the Foix Entertainment network - they have no editorial connection with the Fox News cable channel that the left hates.

they may very well be a tabloid oriented or biased editorially outlet, but tossing the invective so often directed at the Hannity channel is inaccurate. In any given town such a slip-shod report might air on CBS or NBC or whatever - it's pure coincidence that this is a Fox affiliate.

(In Memphis the LEAST sensationalistic station for local news...is the Fox affiliate)

[Suzy]

Well believe it or not, there has been plenty of of coverage of this here in the area.  And I thought the news would be very bigoted.  I have actually been pleasantly surprised.  Sure, there is plenty of mud slinging from both sides, but the balance has quite surprised me.  Fox 26 has actually been one of the better channels. 

[Tammy Hope]

Well believe it or not, there has been plenty of of coverage of this here in the area.  And I thought the news would be very bigoted.  I have actually been pleasantly surprised.  Sure, there is plenty of mud slinging from both sides, but the balance has quite surprised me.  Fox 26 has actually been one of the better channels.

I have no frame of referance other than the crusader of Facebook who can't see past the "Fox" apparently.

she insists that everyone is fair but the Fox station.

Personally, I don't know, but I see the videos she linked and this was my impression...

there was one piece in which the intro included this sentence fragment "...a man who was born a man, married another man"

quite apart from inaccurately referring to Nikki as a man (in the first use of the word) and the improper "another" - that's just bad copy writing. The ONLY sensible way to write that would be "a PERSON who was born a man"...in that phraseology even the "another" isn't really that bad.

But after that sentence, the rest of the video was solidly correct in use of pronouns and gender references.

Interestingly, that piece set up a poll "should transgenders be allowed to marry" in which the "yes" vote won in a landslide - so if they were "indoctrinating" they certainly failed.

I saw nothing slanted except what came from the opposing legal team.

She linked another segment in which she debated a local preacher - on this same station - and she ate the dudes lunch.

So I don't see supporting evidence for the "evil Fox" riff she was on, but she was pretty adamant about it.

[LordKAT]

As to the poll, many probably  think they should be able to marry, just didn't specify who or what they may marry...

[Suzy]

Yes, they are airing both sides.  But I see that as only fair.  The statements made by the opposition lawyers are totally bigoted and sounds so stupid.  I think the best way to deal with them is just give them a bit of rope.  Let them hang themselves.  Phyllis Frye is one tough cookie.