{"id":88,"date":"2012-02-16T03:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-02-16T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:22:07","slug":"medias-role-in-social-movements-stand-up-for-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/2012\/02\/16\/medias-role-in-social-movements-stand-up-for-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Media&#8217;s role in Social Movements: Stand up for Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I found an article in the Huffington Post that serves as a great example of the power of media in social movements. Last week,\u00a0<em>One Million Moms (an affiliate of the American Family Association)\u00a0<\/em>attacked JCPenny for hiring Ellen DeGeneres based on her sexuality. In the &#8220;Gay Voices&#8221; section of the online newspaper, activist and blogger\u00a0Scott Wooledge, gives reasons why the smear campaign will actually be ammunition for the LGBT community:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The LGBT community owes a great big thanks to the &#8220;One Million Moms&#8221; (actually,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onemillionmoms\" target=\"_blank\">closer to 40,000<\/a>) for launching the best LGBT-friendly public relations blitz the community has seen in ages, and battering Christian conservative&#8217;s image in a way the LGBT community could never hope to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that <em>One Million Moms<\/em> is using moral judgement as grounds for employment discrimination has even gotten Bill O&#8217;Rielly talking. (In the article, there is a clip of O&#8217;Rielly passionately defending non-descrimination in the workplace.) In addition, GLAAD, the Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has started a campaign in response, called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/standupforellen\">&#8220;Stand Up for Ellen&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/scott-wooledge\/million-moms-ellen-jcpenny_b_1272420.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/scott-wooledge\/million-moms-ellen-jcpenny_b_1272420.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I found an article in the Huffington Post that serves as a great example of the power of media in social movements. Last week,\u00a0One Million Moms (an affiliate of the American Family Association)\u00a0attacked JCPenny for hiring Ellen DeGeneres based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/2012\/02\/16\/medias-role-in-social-movements-stand-up-for-ellen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8203,771,8201,470],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campaign","tag-current-events","tag-lgbt","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}