Mainstream Coverage of Outing Column "Shallow" and "Homophobic"

june 10, 2003  01:42 am
Mainstream Coverage of Outing Column "Shallow" and "Homophobic"
So says New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman, who had hoped that his column last month outing South Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley (pictured in photo) "would do some good." But things "spiraled out of control," says Norman, after Foley said he wouldn't talk about his sexual orientation and denounced Norman's story and "rumors" about him as "revolting and unforgivable." According to Norman, the mainstream media coverage that followed reduced the debate "to a realpolitikal show, a grand distraction."