Trumpeting an "exclusive," ABCNews.com is proud to announce that transsexual Thomas Beatie is pregnant again. As we've documented at NewsBusters, the biologically female pregnant "man" was the mid-summer fascination of ABC News both in broadcast and on its Web site, ABCNews.com. Beatie gave birth in July but is preggers again and that's enough to make the Breaking News e-mail circuit at ABCNews.com.
Here's the text of the Breaking News alert I received in my inbox around 11:30 a.m. EST today:
'Pregnant Man' Thomas Beatie Tells ABC's Barbara Walters He Is Expecting Second Child
For more, go to abcnews.go.com?CMP=EMC-1396
The Web site currently has two Beatie stories in its "top headlines" rotation: a tease for the Barbara Walters exclusive, and a photo montage entitled "At Home with the Pregnant Man."
