Dear Laura Italiano and Michelle Gotthelf,
I have been strongly urged to contact you to DEMAND that you change the online version of your recent headline, "EVIL LESBIAN MOM LEFT TODDLER TO DIE SLOW DEATH" because it is just hurtful. I have also been urged to explain to you that I will NOT TOLERATE your disrespect for journalistic standards. It is disgraceful! Not only is the word LESBIAN in some way irrelevant to the case, the use of that word is biased. And also hurtful. Kindly change the online version of the headline to the less inflammatory, journalistically more objective: "EVIL MOM LEFT TODDLER TO DIE SLOW DEATH."
By changing the online version of a back issue headline, I will be satisfied in some way. If you leave the headline as is, you are contributing to anti-lesbian violence and you are telling people it is okay to physically assault lesbians.
I do not read your paper, but felt the need to contact you because Rashad Robinson said you had been inflammatory and irresponsible and he said you had been these things "once again" and if that's true, it's just hurtful.
Sincerely,
Zombi GLAAD-McSheep
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