Discovery Channel hostage standoff hits home for D.C. LGBT news staffers

by Matt Comer | Editor Emeritus
September 2, 2010 | Comments Off

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The nation watched yesterday as a domestic terrorist held hostages at the Discovery Channel. Both frightened and anxious, the public kept up with the situation through Twitter and any number of other online and television media.

For staffers at Washington Blade, the LGBT newspaper in the nation’s capital, the situation was especially frightening:

A former Washington Blade employee was among three hostages held at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., on Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

Christopher Wood, a former Blade marketing manager, was freed after police shot and killed the suspect.

Read the rest of the Blade‘s short article…

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Matt Comer is a former editor of QNotes, serving in the role from October 1, 2007, to January 20, 2012.

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