Talk:Steve Yuhas
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Personal research project?
[edit]A lot of this article reads like someone's personal research project. It could use from cleaning and organizing, maybe a more professional review. 199.2.126.188 (talk) 02:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Removed his comments about Jim McGreevey
[edit]I removed his about Jim McGreevey [1]. The first and obvious problem with that paragraph is that there's no evidence his comments were an "international story" or actually any story. The only source there is the opinion piece Yuhas wrote there was no secondary source showing someone actually paid attention to what Yuhas wrote.
But the second and far more serious problem is that the paragraph wrote about complex situation in way that violated BLP and NPOV. It said "Gov. McGreevey came out of the closet in a televised confession after he was targeted for blackmail by his former gay lover
" Yet from reading the McGreevey article and Golan Cipel, it doesn't seem that this is a fair description of the situation. Cipel claims he was sexually harassed by McGreevey, McGreevey claims it was an entirely consensual relationship. Putting that aside, even if we take McGreevey's view of the situation as accurate, there seem to be questions over McGreevey appointing someone he had such a relationship with to positions without this relationship being disclosed.
The 'blackmail' seems to be Cipel threatening a sexual harassment lawsuit against McGreevey. Since he abandoned it with McGreevey's resignation, we don't really have any clear assessment of who's views of the situation might be more closer to the truth but there does seem to be enough to say that the description isn't fair especially to Cipel who wasn't named in there but's who's name is all over the place including in our articles.
The final problem is that the paragraph "showing Yuhas' critics that he does not always run the political football on the right side of the aisle
" which is very confusing to my non American reading. Yuhas a conservative radio personality strongly criticising a Demoncractic governor seems to be what you'd expect. While he might be gay, his criticism of "gay organi(s)ations" seems consistent with a a lot of other stuff he's said. In other words, there doesn't seem to be anything particular surprising about anything he wrote.