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CHRISTOPHER MELE and NIRAJ CHOKSHIAUG. 12, 2016
Daily Beast Removes Article on Gay Olympians in Rio
The premise of The Daily Beast article was simple: The Olympics are a “hotbed of partying athletes, hookups, and sex, sex, sex.”
ザ・ディリ－・ビ－ストゥの記事の前置きは、分かり易い。オリンピックなどというものは、単なる「どんちゃん騷ぎをするアスリ－トゥ、中継、とどのつまりセックス、セックス、セックスの温床だ。」
So the reporter Nico Hines―a straight man who is married and has one child―headed to the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro seeking dates using various apps.
そこで、リポーター、ニコ・ヒネス―既婚の一人の子持ちの率直な男―は、リオ・デ・ジャネイロのオリンピック村に向かった。
21:55 2016/08/14日
He gained three in a single hour, and in an article published on Thursday went on to describe in detail the responses he received on Grindr, the gay dating app. No names were mentioned, but the article was so detailed, it was not hard to guess the identities of the men he had contacted, and not all of them were from gay-friendly countries.
彼はたかが一時間でこれをものにし、彼が、ゲイ デイトゥアプリ、Grindrで受け取った返答を、火曜日に出した或る記事の中で詳細に説明しようとした。名前には全く触れずに、その記事は、非常に詳しく彼が連絡を取った男達の身元を推測する事は、難しくはなく、しかも、彼らの内の誰もが、ゲイに甘い国出身という訳ではなかった。
22:39 2016/08/15月
The story was quickly condemned on social media. After trying to smooth things over with a revised story and an editor’s note, The Daily Beast changed course on Thursday night and took the unusual step of pulling the story entirely.
その話は、あっという間に社交メディアに公表された。改訂された話と編集者の短信で事態を柔げるよう努めた後、ザ・ディリ－・ビ－ストゥは、木曜夜に軌道修正を謀り、その話を全面的に引っ張るという並々ならぬ処理を講じた。
23:57 2016/08/16火
“Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error,” according to an editors’ note that went up in place of the story. “We were wrong. We will do better.”
「我々の望みは、我々の価値観と相反する記事やジャーナリストゥとして我々が野心を抱く事が、いかに我々の過ちを深刻に誘うかの両方共、取り除くという事だ。」その話の編集者の短信によれば、「僕達が悪かった。僕達はもっと巧くやらなきゃ。」
22:45 2016/08/17水
In an earlier note, after the story was revised in response to the barrage of criticism, The Daily Beast’s editor in chief, John Avlon, said editors had removed details that might identify the athletes. He also responded to complaints that Mr. Hines’s original article mocked or shamed the athletes who responded to Mr. Hines’s overtures on Grindr.
比較的初期の短信で、その話が批判の集中砲火に応じて修正された後、ザ・デイリ―・ビストゥの編集長、ジョン・エイヴ口ンは、編集者らは、アスリ－トゥらを特定しかねない個人情報を削除したところだと語った。彼も又、ヒネス氏本来の記事は、ヒネス氏のGrindr上の口説きに応じたアスリ－トゥらを嘲け、恥しめている、という苦情に応じた。
21:22 2016/08/18木
“We do not feel he did this in any way,” he said.
Mr. Avlon said that Mr. Hines received more invitations on Grindr than on straight dating apps and that “he never claimed to be anyone he was not, did not offer anything to anyone, and immediately admitted that he was a journalist whenever he was asked who he was.”
But at 9 p.m., the article and the original editor’s note were gone, and replaced with a note describing how the organization took the “unprecedented but necessary step” of removing the entire article.
“The Daily Beast does not do this lightly,” the note said. “Our initial reaction was that the entire removal of the piece was not necessary. We were wrong.”
The note said the article was not intended “to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn’t matter, impact does.”
Mr. Avlon and The Daily Beast’s executive editor, Noah Shachtman, both shared the new editors’ note on Twitter, expressing regret.
Mr. Hines, reached by email before the article was removed, declined to comment on Thursday night.
In the article, he described what he encountered: profiles of athletes competing in various events, including an individual “from a notoriously homophobic country”; photos of Olympic bedspreads; and a frank exchange with one user.
The article drew significant backlash from gay leaders and athletes.
Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and chief executive of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said on Twitter: “Thoughtless @thedailybeast piece puts LGBT athletes in danger. It should be removed & replaced w a real story about violence LGBT ppl face.”
Amini Fonua, a swimmer from Tonga who is competing in Rio and who is openly gay, said the article was “deplorable.”
He wrote on Twitter: “It is still illegal to be gay in Tonga, and while I’m strong enough to be me in front of the world, not everybody else is. Respect that.”
Robert Drechsel, who retired last week as the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described the article as “thoughtless, insensitive and unethical.”
He said it was good that the article had been removed but that it came too late.
“It’s hard to find the words to describe,” he said. “Why in the world ? why in the world of journalism ? would anyone do this?”