All Left: NPR Publicizes Gay-Bert-and-Ernie Petition Lightly With Joke

Tim Graham
August 13th, 2011 10:02 PM
Openly lesbian NPR arts reporter Neda Ulaby was given the assignment of making light news out of the gay-activism petition to get the Muppet characters Ernie and Bert married on "Sesame Street" on Friday night's All Things Considered. Her only sources for comment were a lesbian comedian and a liberal Time magazine TV critic. She did not interview the petition's author Lair Scott, who…