As Kalish wrote, “The letter cites different Times articles as it criticizes the sourcing and terminology used around gender-affirming care and parental rights. Corbett, associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times - used examples of specific articles in the Times that highlighted the letter writers’ concerns. The letter - which was addressed to Philip B. Yet the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.” The letter said, “The newspaper’s editorial guidelines demand that reporters ‘preserve a professional detachment, free of any whiff of bias’ when cultivating their sources, remaining ‘sensitive that personal relationships with news sources can erode into favoritism, in fact or appearance. The new letter marks the first time critics have organized to publicly denounce the Times for having an editorial bias in its coverage of trans issues.” The letter was signed by many notable journalists, including opinion writer Roxane Gay, culture reporter Dave Itzkoff and Ed Yong, who works for The Atlantic but has contributed to the Times in the past.īuzzFeed News’ Lil Kalish wrote, “In recent months, the Times has been criticized by trans journalists, trans right advocates, and others who have sounded the alarms about coverage that often frames the existence of trans children as one up for debate. That’s because more than 200 New York Times contributors sent a letter to the Times saying they had “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people.” Questions about the Times’ transgender coverage have been bubbling for months, but on Wednesday, it became a major topic. The New York Times is being called out publicly for its coverage of transgender issues.
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