From a comment thread on Jim Romenesko's news industry blog about an anti-gay campaign directed at me while I was in Washington, D.C., last week covering the Gannett annual shareholder's meeting. The writer is challenging the assertion that Gannett "was among the FIRST newspaper chains with a homosexual columnist (Deb Price),'' a claim made by an earlier Romenesko commenter:Perhaps Deb Price was among the first openly homosexual columnists, (way back in the misty days of the early 1990s), but there have certainly been Americans -- I mean homosexuals -- in newspaper chains decades and decades before Al Gore started fibbing about global warming (how he melts all those glaciers, I don't know, but I suspect he has the liberal media helping him out) or Ronald Reagan started inventing non-existent welfare queens.
Related: Still at the formerly-Gannett owned Detroit News, Price writes the first nationally syndicated column on gay issues, according to Creators Syndicate
Earlier: Gannett Foundation gives more than $100,000 to gay journalists' trade association
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