The sleezy libtard site “Daily Beast” ran a story from one of their writers who use the gay dating app, called Grindr, to lure gay Olympic athletes, and then “out” them to the world as being gay, while trying to shame them.
Sleezy Daily Beast Lures Gay Olympians Using Gay Dating App For Story to ‘Out’ and Shame Them
”With his dubious premise established, Hines proceeds to out athlete after athlete, providing enough information about each Olympian he encounters for anyone with basic Google skills to uncover their identities.” – Slate column titled “This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical” slammed TDB, calling it a “an exceedingly gross and bizarre article” and an “astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting.”
Personally, I Think the writer of the story, Nico Hines is a closet homosexual, who used his story as a cover for the reason why this so-called “straight” man, with wife and child, would be on the gay dating app Grindr. I think Nico Hines just wanted a little hot beef injection from some in-shape athletes.
The Daily Beast has now taken down the story and replaced it with an editor’s note that says the site “took an unprecedented but necessary step” by removing the article.
“The Daily Beast does not do this lightly. As shared in our editor’s note earlier today, we initially thought swift removal of any identifying characteristics and better clarification of our intent was the adequate way to address this. Our initial reaction was that the entire removal of the piece was not necessary. We were wrong. We’re sorry,” the apology continues. Read the full Note From the Editors here.
Just when it seemed impossible, journalism may have reached a new low.
The Daily Beast is under fire on Thursday after one of its straight writers lured gay (and closeted) athletes using dating apps for no apparent reason other than to shame them.
TDB’s latest gem, “The Other Olympic Sport in Rio: Swiping,” is the brainchild of straight, married writer Nico Hines, who thought outing Olympic athletes (some from “notoriously homophobic countries”) was somehow news.
A Slate column titled “This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical” slammed TDB, calling it a “an exceedingly gross and bizarre article” and an “astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting.”
Vox also weighed in with this headline: “The Daily Beast tried to prove Olympians like sex, but instead may have outed gay athletes.”
Gay activists called the article “despicable.”
“The Daily Beast should be embarrassed at this piece of homophobic trash and try swiping on some ethical journalism standards than playing games on Grindr,” prominent gay activist Danielle Moodie-Mills, who’s done consulting for GLAAD, told TheWrap.
You may want to get the hot water running in your shower before reading. This part is especially creepy:
“Perhaps the question most people have is: How do the rest of us get an invite? Can an Average Joe join the bacchanalia?
After 60 minutes in the Olympic Village on Tuesday evening, I’m surprised to say that the answer is ‘yes.
Armed with a range of dating and hookup apps — Bumble, Grindr, Jack’d and Tinder — your distinctly non-Olympian correspondent had scored three dates in the first hour.”
Then, in his infinite wisdom, Hines decided to leave just enough clues so that anyone with an internet connection could figure who these athletes are. We won’t add them to this story, but suffice it say it didn’t take long for some to figure it out.
Slate, rightly pointed out that, ”With his dubious premise established, Hines proceeds to out athlete after athlete, providing enough information about each Olympian he encounters for anyone with basic Google skills to uncover their identities. (After several minutes of Googling, I surmised the identities of five of the gay athletes Hines described.) I’m not going to repeat his descriptions, because — as Hines himself acknowledges! — some of them live in ‘notoriously homophobic’ countries and remain closeted at home.”
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