Australian cricketer makes joke on instagram, 'woke' journalists 'out' him as gay
04-30-2019, 04:44 AM
This thread hasn't caught on.
For anyone outside of Aus, this story was THE BIGGEST STORY in Australia.
The possibility that an athlete might have been gay made everything stop. From an Instagram joke, they made dozens and dozens of articles about him 'coming out', not even checking with him.
Now they are blaming him for 'trivialising' being gay rather than recognizing it was terrible journalism.
For anyone outside of Aus, this story was THE BIGGEST STORY in Australia.
The possibility that an athlete might have been gay made everything stop. From an Instagram joke, they made dozens and dozens of articles about him 'coming out', not even checking with him.
Now they are blaming him for 'trivialising' being gay rather than recognizing it was terrible journalism.