sources say mcqueary abused as a boy. this is what i think it should have been. penn state fan blows whistle to d.a. after abuse revealed in online chat, and i refer to excellent reporting at espn s magazine by donovan nata jr. under the headline, the whistle-blowers last query. remember mike mcqueary, big red head, star quarterback, on to be an assistant coach under the tutelage of joe paterno. it s he who sees something despicable taking place in a zhaoer in 2001 involving jerry sandusky but we all know he did not call police. i often wondered how did law enforcement find out about mike mcqueary and the shower. the story is unbelievable. don reports that nine years after the shower incident, mcqueary s older brother is
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readers on monday. we have made one massive mistake. i have thought about it for nearly three solid days and i ve run out of ways to kick myself about it. how did it never occur to any of us? how? how could we have all blown it? that mistake was someone familiar with the transgender community should have read caleb s football draft. this never occurred to us. nobody ever brought it up. simmons also declined to be here today. the controversy had many of us in the newsroom this week asking what ethical questions can those of us in the media take away, if any? here with me now to discuss in no, tiq milan, a senior media strategist of national news at glaad, and in chicago espn.com writer and editor christina kahrl. welcome to you both. thank you. thank you, brian. christina, you wrote an essay for grantland about what went wrong in this case. tell me what you think the difficulties are for the media in writing about transgender men and women. well, some of it is just basically a p
diversity is so important to have in newsrooms. but i wonder if that s easier said than done sometimes for these places. i think you made a point, christina, that the article was being written for an audience that could have learned a lot about the transgender community if only the research had been done. if only the research had been done. and essentially if they d just reached out. one of the most embarrassing portions of this is as a teammate at espn is somehow even though the fact that bill and i both know each other, it just didn t occur to him to pick up the phone and give me a call. so last weekend we were both kicking ourselves in the sense that we could have stopped this in so many different points if only he had thought, you know, to just pick up the phone and give me a ring. or if somebody like one of his editors had thought maybe it would make sense to run it by christina because that s one of those situations where as easy as it is for any journalist i think to refer to
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