June 18, 2004

By Laura Douglas-Brown
The Washington Blade
Published on 6/18/2004


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But journalists may be more likely to respond to NLGJA’s efforts than to GLAAD, according to Kelly McBride, an ethicist at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a non-profit agency that provides training for professional journalists.


“We always listen to our own better,” McBride said. “When we have another organization coming in, that’s not necessarily rooted in journalism, we always see that as a special interest group. We think their message is somehow tainted, and we don’t listen as closely as we should.”


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