Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Debate: 'We have to cover both sides' of trans people existing

hate this moment we’re living in where journalists use “we have to cover both sides” as an excuse to platform anti-trans misinformation
“here’s a person who thinks trans people should exist. here is another person who doesn’t. let’s present both of those opinions equally” explain to me how that isn’t reckless & unnecessary, u dark sided bitch
“here’s a person who’s beliefs are backed by science & community understanding. here’s a bitch who thinks trans youth healthcare is mutilation & could simply google to figure out that they’re wrong. both of them will get 10 minutes on air!”
@nytimes & @TheAtlantic & every other journalism org platforming anti-trans bigots: me & everyone I love will never forget this & I hope the grave yr incompetence will put u in is deep
it should've been @nytimes‘ anti-trans staff Paper Magazine laid off its staff today, the latest publisher to resort to cuts or closure due to the depressed economic climate.
Ari Drennen tweets: CNN Tonight hosted yet another panel with zero trans people to lament that they cannot have a more substantive discussion of the problems facing the trans community. They could solve this problem any day!

For comparison, re: news coverage of the economy

Since news outlets are always "touting their economic foresightedness and keen analysis," why do they publish headlines that contain the clickbaity adjective "surprising" to describe every latest economic report, especially when all previous data pointed to the outcome that the new report is merely summarizing? Perhaps because the media outlet has "invested" in some other "narrative" that doesn't track with the facts. And perhaps they write "political horse-race coverage" so they tend to use the framing of "What do voters think?" more often than they investigate facts. Either way, they move from one "groupthink exercise" to another. ("A perpetually surprised media isn’t doing its job," Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post opinion, July 7, 2023

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