About 100 people armed in rainbow flags have descending on News Corp‘s headquarters in Sydney, in protest of an absolute deadshit graphic in the Daily Telegraph yesterday that likened LGBTI youth to having an illness.
Visitors at Holt St! (The Daily Tele’s graphic yesterday was not a universal hit) pic.twitter.com/IwCjfaYgRZ
— James Jeffrey (@James_Jeffrey) July 13, 2017
About 100 gays and lesbians outside News Corp headquarters protest against @dailytelegraph graphic as editor @wrongdorey watches from foyer pic.twitter.com/f88jbAM3SP
— Stephen Brook (@ViscountBrooky) July 13, 2017
Pro LGBTQI crowd gathers outside NewsCorp in protest of yesterday’s edition associating sexual orientation with bad health. #auspol pic.twitter.com/QfqkD7rGVk
— James Breko Brechney (@breko) July 13, 2017
“We’re here! We’re queer! We’re fabulous! Don’t fuck with us!” #bestchantever ???? pic.twitter.com/JoXYIKJdlL
— Jenny Leong MP (@jennyleong) July 13, 2017
Protesters drew a huge rainbow in chalk on the ground, as tweeted by NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong.
Snap action outside of @dailytelegraph offices – #homophobia is never okay #greens #nswpol #enddiscrimination pic.twitter.com/CjsaeGRdi4
— Jenny Leong MP (@jennyleong) July 13, 2017
News Corp sent an email around to its employees earlier today regarding the protest.
“As a company, we respect the right to freedom of speech and an individual’s right to express their views publicly,” it said, in an email obtained by PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“We will monitor the protest and ask that in the meantime, you continue to go about your business as usual.”
The piece yesterday was a fuck-up from start to finish. The piece was intended to be a pearl-clutching piece about unhealthy kids, but somewhere a mistake was made and stats about the number of LGBTI youth was included. At least, we hope it was a mistake. The Daily Tele would have a greater leg to stand on here if it hadn’t spent the last two years arguing that Safe Schools promoted pedophilia or some shit.
To make matters worse, Daily Tele editor Christopher Dore refused to own up to the mistake, instead putting the onus on everybody else for ‘wrongly’ misinterpreting the graphic.
This is the statement from the @dailytelegraph ‘s editor on today’s graphic #auspol pic.twitter.com/hyb4WwH4gg
— PatriciaKarvelas (@PatsKarvelas) July 12, 2017
Sorry, but there is just absolutely no way a reasonable person would not interpret that graphic to be equating queerness with unhealthiness. Do better.
Photo: James Jeffreys / Twitter.
