A lot of the coverage reflects that. Like a lot of just the random articles that you see in the leisure sections, the more fun sections, they touch on things that would be relevant to people outside of like urgent crime and medical problems where it's not getting that coverage for trans people. Otherwise, like you're only getting the controversy and like the absolute fringe and like, you're not having trans people just covering trans people. All of these stories, I think one of the most frustrating things about it is like a trans person didn't write it. And I'm sure that just like no one trans had a hand in it really besides sources who at times have spoken out about not having an
In this News Brief, we break down the recent controversy over the open letter sent by 1200+ NYT contributors pushing back on The Times' salacious coverage of "trans issues," and how the Paper of Record's response has proved to be thin skinned, sanctimonious, and hypocritical.
With guests Eric Thurm and Julia Carmel.