We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock
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The Importance of Sources
Sourcing doesn't seem to require a certain level of expertise or lived experiences. If I was writing about plane safety, which I'm not qualified to do, I'd be like, oh, I don't know anything about this. But that's actually how they report on trans people is they'll talk to cis people who think that trans people are real and cis people who Think that trans people aren't real. And then meanwhile, like my friend, Frankie de la Crater wrote an incredible story about trans athletics for inside hook where they cited five student athletes, two adult athletes, a therapist, a documentarian, an organizer and like a trans person's mom. Everyone except the mom was
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