RENWL

If anyone’s noticed we’ve been rather slovenly in our Prop 8 trial coverage this week. There’s a reason for that.

Here’s the deal: we got bored.

Oh, we know we’re SUPPOSED to be besides ourselves slurping up every second someone utters a word. Well, that was cute the first week. We loved hopping on every untwittered headline that came our way. Our page views shot through the roof—-oh it was very good for business. For a second there we believed ourselves to be the www darlings of Prop 8 coverage and firsthand news bits. But this second week we’re like—yawn—wonder what’s Judge Judy up to today?  That’s the closest we’ve come to getting worked up over a court proceeding these days.  We just don’t care anymore. We’ll either win or we won’t is now our thought on things. There’s more than ample enough coverage anyway. Clearly you all must be thinking Prop 8 trial coverage overkill by now. We are.

This allows us to turn our attention to other things. For instance, we’ve noticed a cultural divide in the attention paid to the Prop 8 trial and its coverage. Why the only blogger of color we can think of that’s actually covering this trial or attempting to rather, is Pam’s House Blend. But that’s about it. And even in that we wouldn’t exactly say PHB’s a big hub for POCs anyway. That’s not a slam. Matter of fact more like a compliment especially since PHB appeals to all types of gay people—even us—minus of course the David Mixner and John Aravosis posts Pam Spaulding favors from time to time. That, we don’t like.

Getting back to the Prop 8 trial coverage and our perceived lack of interest by gays of color—we don’t know why that is. It could be of course that as we noted in our re-enactment post earlier today, there’s no people of color anywhere near the trial. That actually can make a difference we think on if black, Latino and Asian gay folks would be on the hustle about the latest updates and trial happenings.  Maybe that’s why we got bored ourselves in covering it. We wonder could the Prop 8 trial fall under the heading of stuff white people like?  It’s a thought.

In any case, starting tomorrow (Friday) we’re going to try a new experiment. We’re going to also start to feature posts about the Oscar Brown trial. We think peeps of color might be interested in that. We’ll continue to provide some skim milk type of coverage of the Prop 8 trial but we’ll add the Brown trial into the mix and see what happens. Sounds good? Cool.

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