VOICES-On Monday July 7, I led a protest of approximately 100 Angelenos at the grand opening of the new Hobby Lobby store in Burbank, California. Men and women ages ranging from 12 to 74 added their voices to the national expression of outrage over last week’s Supreme Court decision Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby.
In this case, the Supreme Court departed from all previous precedent and accorded private corporations religious rights and allowed them to opt out of providing contraception to their female employees under the Affordable Care Act.
A press release was sent to every major news outlet in the city. While seven TV stations sent crews and aired stories on their afternoon and evening news casts, and while the story was featured in advance on two radio shows and one internet podcast, the LA Times once again chose not to send a reporter or even a photographer to cover this protest of a major national issue of concern.
Instead they published this snarky hit piece by someone they identified as a “guest blogger” who “writes frequently about politics, feminism and religion” using the handle @MeanCharlotte. And mean this was.
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CityWatch
Vol 12 Issue 57
Pub: Jul 15, 2014
