The AP: 0 for 2

The Associated Press has already been more on my mind than normal during the last week, thanks to their egregious error in overlooking "The Colbert Report." But their story about this year's Golden Globe winners proves to be just as nearsighted.

Beneath the headline "Alternative lifestyles get Globes nod," the AP story emphasized those wacky homos and their out-there ways by highlighting, just in case you missed it, that Brokeback Mountain is about dudes kissing. The clause that most irked me was this one: "...Philip Seymour Hoffman won the dramatic actor award for playing gay author Truman Capote." As the star of Capote, Hoffman gave an amazing performance, but limiting his role to "gay author" is unfair to his work. He was white, too, and male. Why not mention those?

I guess I'm just disappointed that the AP saw fit to write the by-the-numbers story that reinforces stereotypes and might only be seen as balanced by the members of Bill O'Reilly's America, who probably couldn't give the first crap about these movies.