And you wonder why gay media's fucked up. Talk about burying the lede. At the end...
" Corporate sponsors of this year’s convention included Coca-Cola, JetBlue, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, McClatchy, Scripps, Comcast NBC Universal, ESPN, the Facebook Journalism Project, MGM Resorts International, Prudential, Stoli, and Verizon Media.
But Fox’s continued sponsorship has become a bone of contention this year after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists recently returned more than $16,000 to Fox. That was in reaction to Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes’ remarks against Latino immigrants.
Critics of the sponsorship say that the network’s conservative editorial positions should disqualify it from being associated with NLGJA. “By promoting Fox News with sponsorship logos and ads, NLGJA is helping pinkwash the image of a far-right corporation,” said Dominic Holden, NLGJA’s 2016 Journalist of the Year and a vocal critic of Fox’s sponsorship, told CONNECT student journalist Jonathan Lee.
The topic of corporate sponsorships came up at the annual meeting of NLGJA’s board. “We discussed feedback that we’re hearing from members,” Durhams, the group’s president, told Lee, “and there wasn’t a change in policy.”"