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Newsweek’s Hayes Hater Gets a Promotion

After Newsweek’s Ramin Setoodeh slammed several openly gay actors — and earned stinging rebukes from Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes — some called for the newsmagazine to fire the writer. Instead, he’s gotten the equivalent of a promotion: Setoodeh will leave the struggling Newsweek to become a senior writer on People’s news and human-interest team, it was announced today. Yes, that’s in addition to the offer extended to Setoodeh to visit the Glee set and, uh, “learn about diversity.” Some self-hating gays have all the luck! [ NY Observer ]

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Aaron Sorkin Comes to Newsweek’s Aid in Gay Actor Controversy… Sort Of

It’s been a rough week for Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh: after writing an editorial about how he can’t buy gay actors in straight roles, he was eviscerated by Kristin Chenoweth and made the target of a boycott by Glee creator Ryan Murphy, despite his hasty attempt to reframe his intentions . Today, though, Setoodeh found an unlikely defender in The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin.

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Aaron Sorkin Comes to Newsweek’s Aid in Gay Actor Controversy… Sort Of