• 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    Imagine running a story about abortion and not adding any female commentary, racial equality and not boosting black voices. SMH

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The Times also covered President Joe Biden’s speech to a Pride celebration at the White House without speaking to any of the trans people who attended.

    Why is this one considered a knock against them? Were they not supposed to cover this? The vast majority of the article is quoting Biden’s speech, which is decidedly not an anti-trans talking point.

    This is being held up as on par as speech by DeSantis in the same paragraph.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This sounds nonsensical. Not every article needs pop-vox commentary from specific members of a community.

    It’s a bizarre metric to create and then use to try and attack a broadsheet newspaper.

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      7 months ago

      The NYT is not just a newspaper, it styles itself as “the paper of record”. So yes, it is perfectly valid to set high standards for it.

      In that regard it is not too high a standard to require that a paper that writes about a certain community talks to members of that community. You cannot write a credible article about (let’s say) Los Angeles and only quote people from New York. For any newspaper that would be considered absurd and lazy.

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        I can see both your and @BananaTrifleViolin s point.

        You’re not wrong, but neither is he. If there’s an article about some piece of anti-trans legislation that would effect trans people, I think pretty often the interviews on “how do you feel about the legislation” would get similar answers: “I don’t like it and I’d like to have the same rights as other people”

        Tangentially related sketch

        Mitchell and Webb Train Safety

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          7 months ago

          That’s only if you assume that trans people can’t have legal or other specific knowledge to contribute. Trans people come from all walks of life and it’s not hard to find people who could tell a newspaper about historical precedence, provide medical background information or do political analysis. It’s not just about people’s feelings after all.

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            7 months ago

            If they’re providing objective analysis, it shouldn’t really matter where it comes from?

            I’m sure the New York Times is trying to get the best objective information on a subject. If the experts they find aren’t trans, should they then look specifically for experts on the matter, who also happen to be trans?