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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Thousands sign a letter protesting The New York Times' coverage of trans people, coordinated with a letter from GLAAD; a NYT statement defends the outlet's work — This story has been updated with a statement from The New York Times. — In the past year, page A1 of The New York Times …
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nytletter.com: For the attention of Philip B. Corbett, associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.
Michael Powell / @powellnyt: Journalism is meant to ask difficult and discomforting questions, and to question institutions, including the medical establishment. I am very proud to work at a place that publishes the work of @emilybazelon, Katie Baker, Azeen Ghoryashi, @mega2e and @DouthatNYT
Parker Molloy / The Present Age: Why I Signed the NYT Letter (And You Should, Too)
Patrick Reilly / New York Post: New York Times accused of ‘editorial bias’ in coverage of transgender issues
@chrisgeidner: I strongly support this letter and am glad to put my name on it. I have for several years criticized the NYT's treatment of and coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people and, in recent years, trans kids and their health care. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: the @nytimes statement on the open letters about its coverage of trans people. from Charlie Stadtlander, director of external communications https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Here's the NYT's response, via @laurahazardowen In a more perfect world, the Times would be offering to meet with some of the letter-writers and hear them out. The tone of this response conveys nothing of the sort. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Frankie de la Cretaz / @thefrankiedlc: so glad the NYT gets to decide for the entire trans community whether its coverage counts as fair, deep, and empathetic. this is what it looks like to shout down people who are telling you you're wrong without actually engaging with their critique https://twitter.com/...
Ty Schalter / @tyschalter: @powellnyt ... Journalism is not meant to ask the same simple questions over and over again because you personally don't like the institutions' very clear answers—and it's certainly not meant to prop up cranks and bigots because you DO like THEIR answers.
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: But the NYT's openness to occasionally allowing dissidents in its pages is not the same thing as an overall anti-trans bias—a claim with no empirical evidence other than the occasional presence of critical voices. NYT op-eds on the topic are more often left-wing than right-wing: https://twitter.com/...
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: The NYT's reporting, too — ostensibly the main place where its anti-trans bias materializes — usually hews to the standard progressive line on the issue. Here are some recent headlines from the non-opinion sections: https://twitter.com/...
@holdendcat: @njhochman Nate, doing straight reporting on how transgender people are worried about the effects of laws directly naming them is no more “the progressive line” than reporting taxpayers want to pull their kids out of a crumbling public school is “the conservative line.”
GLAAD: 180+ JOURNALISTS, NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS CALL OUT BIASED COVERAGE OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN JOINT LETTER AS 100+ ORGANIZATIONS AND NOTABLES ECHO CALL …
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: wow I didn't catch that the NYT watered down Jamelle's headline after the fact, good catch from @ParkerMolloy https://open.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mx. D. E. Anderson / @diannaeanderson: Gotta wonder who complained to make that headline change https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Am open letter demanding that you stop covering a subject is pretty anti-persuasive.
Adam Gurri / @adamgurri: @mattyglesias An open letter criticizing the substance of the coverage, on the other hand, is certainly an exercise in persuasion
Rob Chappell / @robchappell365: @mattyglesias Matt, you often (correctly) criticize people who argue against points that weren't really made, right? That's what you're doing here. Maybe read the letter and rethink?
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Via @laurahazardowen, here's the NYT's response to the open letters. It's basically perfect. The letter writers appear to have lost, full-stop. I'm relieved. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: 2/ Of course we don't know what's going on inside the building, and maybe this will have a chilling effects. But this was not the sort of public statement you make if you think you letters you're responded to made any legitimate points you need to grapple with.
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: Permit me a thread on something I have first-hand knowledge of. My child transitioned when he was 20. This is a good letter Chris links to. What is most disturbing to me about the treatment of trans issues even by the mainstream media is how facile it can be, lacking nuance. 1/5 https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Nearly 200 New York Times Contributors Are Denouncing the Paper's Anti-Trans Coverage
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: You're the guy who wrote a whole piece about how trans people want to ban the word “woman” that didn't cite a single example of anyone doing that, but yeah man, you keep doing you. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: huge kudos to michael for afflicting the comfortable (kids who want to be allowed to exist) and comforting the afflicted (the entirety of conservative media and state governments enacting sweeping decisions about kids bodies against medical advice) https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Hey @jbouie! Who changed your headline and why? You would be doing a huge public service if you told us. That was a great column. https://twitter.com/...
@chrisgeidner: I would like to note the incredible personal disappointment that I feel about the NYT's actions, through its coverage decisions about trans issues. https://twitter.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net: Dismissing legitimate critiques of your race/gender/identity reporting as coming from “activists” or “advocates” is a argument you can only make by first defining “human/civil rights” issues as having two equally legitimate sides. …
Matthew Cortland / @mattbc: If there was any justice, Parker would have a @nytimes column. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Journalism isn't exempted from being asked difficult and discomforting questions, or being challenged on its approach. The NYT contributors who signed that letter (including me) think the paper can and should do better here. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: I have come to find that while there is a lot of hateful rhetoric, covered without context too often, most people who are not exploiting trans folks for political purposes just don't know enough. Just as they didn't know enough, as the letter says, about gays at one time. 2/5
Gabriel Hays / Fox News: Nearly 200 NYT contributors sign letter bashing paper as following ‘far-right hate groups’ on trans issue
Noelle Howey / @noellehowey: @chrisgeidner Thank you for sharing this. I wrote about my trans parent - and reviewed books on trans families for the NYT in the early to mid 2010s and have been horrified to see the devolution of their coverage and POV in the last few years.
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's no surprise that the usual crew of contrarian-bro types are putting a ton of energy into lying about the NYT Letter and its goals. (No, it is not a call to “silence” anyone, that is a wild, ridiculous distortion.) Anyway, my latest newsletter: https://www.readtpa.com/...
Casey Plett / @caseyplett: The Times responded to the letter (and the one from @glaad) in an unsurprising but disappointing way: Not addressing anything of substance, defending their work without qualification or humility. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@albertocairo: @laurahazardowen @nytimes So they are implying that, say (just for the sake of argument,) a journalism professor with years of experience as a journalist is now an “activist” because he criticizes their news agenda, story framings, and reporting?
Mary Yang / NPR: ‘New York Times’ stories on trans youth slammed by writers — including some of its own
Brooke Migdon / The Hill: NYT contributors blast paper's coverage of transgender people
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Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter:
Over 100 New York Times contributors and others call on the newspaper to stop “bias, fringe theories, and dangerous inaccuracies” in its trans people coverage — Hannah Gadsby, Joey Soloway, Margaret Cho, Jameela Jamil, Lena Dunham, Jonathan Van Ness and Jazz Jennings were also among …
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@glaad: We've had enough. We've joined over 100 organizations and leaders to demand that @nytimes stop printing inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues. Today we are outside of the Times building to send a clear message. https://www.glaad.org/nytimes https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lil Kalish / BuzzFeed News: A Group Of Trans New York Times Contributors Have Written An Open Letter Condemning The Paper's Coverage Of Trans Issues
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: Left image: critique of a Times article. Right image: excerpt from the Times article. The highlighted claim doesn't seem to be true. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: 1/ Goes w/o saying I disagree w/this letter, and that I'm disappointed (no longer surprised) to see so many journalists cosign an anti-intellectual attack on their own peers. We'll discuss on the pod but I just want to point out two parts that are nuts. https://nytletter.com/
Sasha Stone / Free Thinking Through …: Did I just Leave a Cult? — “The modus operandi of every cult is to convince …
@harronwawker: 180 (and counting) past and present New York Times contributors have signed an open letter to the paper's standards editor condemning the ongoing unethical anti-trans bias in its coverage of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Read it here https://nytletter.com/
Sasha Velour / @sasha_velour: I signed. Grateful to the many contributors standing up against the institutional anti-trans bias (and fake “objectivity") that's characterised the @nytimes especially this year. Please read and join. https://twitter.com/...
@kmele: If I really thought my employer was ‘following the lead of’ political extremists + hate groups, I wouldn't write a letter expressing my “disappointment” — I'd quit. https://hellgatenyc.com/... Hysteria/overstatement could obliterate any legit concern these signatories might have. https://twitter.com/...
Christian Toto / @hollywoodintoto: The Left is going after David French! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “As thinkers, we are disappointed to see the New York Times follow the lead of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy warranting new, punitive legislation.” https://nytletter.com/
Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee: I signed. The way the paper's coverage privileges and dignifies anti-trans talking points, paving the way for these articles to become the basis for anti-trans legislation, is a crisis. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Dispassionate observer weighs in https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nora J.S. Reichardt / @nora_jsr: I'm not a NYT contributor, but I am a trans person working in media, and I just signed on to show my support. Even if you aren't trans, I highly recommend giving this a read: https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Summers / @wfkars: I've never had a byline at the Times, but I added my name as both a writer and a physician. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: more of this please, less quiet begging the media to be better. they ignore you when you try to be nice. https://twitter.com/...
Silvia Killingsworth / @silviakillings: Obviously the answer here is to reinstate the Public Editor role and give it to @tomscocca https://nytletter.com/
Sarah Kate Ellis / @sarahkateellis: But our youth, and our community broadly, can no longer wait for the Times to do the right thing. We need to see action now: stop printing anti-trans stories, meet with trans leaders, and hire trans journalists. (15/15) https://www.glaad.org/NYTimes
Amy Schneider / @jeopardamy: The NYT's obsession with misleading, fearmongering, “troubling questions remain” stories on trans issues has been infuriating. So I'm proud to join @glaad and 100+ other people/orgs in demanding a stop to their insidious campaign against trans acceptance https://www.glaad.org/...
Kathleen Stock / @docstockk: I know it makes no difference to say it but every person who signs a letter like this in search of social capital is going to look like a credulous fool within quite a short time. If you already signed one, I'm sorry but you'd better start thinking of convincing excuses fast https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: To give a sense of just how anti-trans NYT is, after the Colorado Springs shooting, the paper made a factual mistake. When pushed by @glaad to correct it, the paper refused. https://www.glaad.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Roxane Gay / @rgay: I am proud to be among so many New York Times contributors signing this open letter calling out their egregious coverage of trans issues. The bias has been glaring and it's dangerous and if we don't speak up, we are part of the problem. https://nytletter.com/
Muna / @muna_mire: Our coalition includes reporters, essayists, opinion columnists, critics, food writers and more. We all take a stand today against an unethical editorial agenda that singles out a tiny, already vulnerable community under the guise of concern. No more. https://nytletter.com/
@glaad: What GLAAD and 100+ organizations are demanding from @nytimes in our letter at https://www.glaad.org/nytimes (Thread) https://twitter.com/...
Tony Morrison / @thetonymorrison: BREAKING: This morning, @glaad takes on the @nytimes and their irresponsible reporting and misrepresentation of trans people and issues. Read in and see the 100's who have signed in support of the NYT making change and committing to do better: https://www.glaad.org/NYTimes https://twitter.com/...
@luxalptraum: Proud to have signed my name to this letter condemning the @nytimes's choice to continually run transphobic coverage. https://nytletter.com/
@msmagazine: We're joining @glaad & over 100 organizations and leaders—as well as thousands of contributors and readers—in urging the New York Times to improve its coverage of trans people. Learn more: https://www.glaad.org/...
@glaad: “We write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people.” https://nytletter.com/
Shane / @shaneferro: This is a really great letter but on a tangential note this sentence has me on the floor https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Zack Budryk / @budrykzack: There's an option to sign as a NewsGuild member, so if you're a member of @hillguild that includes you https://twitter.com/...
Julie Kliegman / @jmkliegman: I haven't contributed to The New York Times, but as a trans journalist I shared my support alongside those who have by signing on to this open letter. The Times needs to do better in covering trans people https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@niemanlab: One open letter draws parallels between the New York Times' coverage of trans people and, in earlier decades, its coverage of gay people and HIV/AIDS. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Lyz Lenz / @lyzl: Bad and biased reporting about trans people doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ripple effects through our communities. It impacts laws and legislatures and helps determine whether a trans girl in Iowa can be on the swim team. And it's worth calling out. https://nytletter.com/
Kate Smith / @bykatesmith: NEW: More than 170 NYT contributors have signed on to an open letter condemning the paper's coverage of trans issues. Read the letter here: https://nytletter.com/
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: This is an interesting document https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Imagine getting your reporting so wrong that expert groups on trans health care have to put out statements telling you just *how* wrong you've gotten it. https://www.glaad.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: Here's @glaad's letter with 100+ orgs signing on https://www.glaad.org/...
Isle McElroy / @isle_mcelroy: As a former New York Times contributor, I signed the open letter critiquing the paper's coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. Here's a link to the letter, which includes a link to add your support https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Kleeman / @alexkleeman: Signed this today. It's been disturbing to watch the NYT legitimize dangerous and unscientific rhetoric about trans people at such a perilous time for LGTBQ people. They must do better. https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: I've been a New York Times contributor. I certainly don't every article on trans issues has been terrible, but I do think the paper would benefit from clearer internal guidelines in who they source as an expert. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: As today's letter to NYT ( https://nytletter.com/) illustrates, this is an issue. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: As a sometime contributor to the NYT, I hope those at the Times who oversee coverage of trans issues use this thoughtful and intelligent letter as an occasion for reflection and engagement. The paper has long acknowledged that its coverage of gay people... https://nytletter.com/
Frankie de la Cretaz / @thefrankiedlc: As a three-time NYT contributor (whose byline will probably never be updated bc the paper doesn't believe in changing the bylines of trans journalists), I'm proud to have signed this letter of fellow contributors condemning the paper's anti-trans bias: https://nytletter.com/
@glaad: More than 100 organizations and leaders have signed a letter to the @nytimes demanding a stop to biased and irresponsible coverage of transgender people. Today GLAAD was at the New York Times building to deliver the letter and send a clear message. https://www.glaad.org/nytimes https://twitter.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Protest happening today outside NYT HQ over coverage of trans people. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: No more newspaper articles examining scientific studies on whether various new medical treatments are safe! No more journalistic looks at the proper balance between the power of school bureaucrats and parents to participate in vital decision-making about a child's life! 🏳️🌈✊✊ https://twitter.com/...
Nick Pinto / @macfathom: A whole bunch of people who write or have written for the New York Times published a letter this morning calling out the paper's anti-trans pivot. @HellGateNY interviewed one of the organizers, @Jo_Livingstone, about what's going on at the Times: https://hellgatenyc.com/...
Bron Maher / Press Gazette: New York Times contributors pen open letter accusing paper of pseudoscience and bias in trans coverage
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I'm a Times contributor and have raised these issues with my direct editors in person and they have been very receptive, but I do believe the paper has a systemic problem, so am signing in solidarity. https://nytletter.com/
Kelsey Mckinney / @mckinneykelsey: I signed this letter. It is good and you should read it. https://twitter.com/...
@hellgateny: Today, almost 200 NYT contributors published an open letter condemning the paper's coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. Read our Q&A with one of the organizers, the critic Jo Livingstone, to learn more. https://hellgatenyc.com/...
@jfrejnyc: Solidarity with the 175+ @nytimes contributors urging the paper's standards editor, Philip Corbett, to address NYT's barrage of poorly-reported stories promoting & validating transphobia — stories being used to help pass anti-trans legislation nationwide. https://hellgatenyc.com/...
Dr. Sarah Parcak / @indyfromspace: I've written 3 op-eds for the NY Times and have proudly added my name as a contributor in full support of trans issues. I'll always be loud. Trans rights are human rights. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Oh hey, that's the same type of thing the letter he's complaining about cites as one of the problems. Go figure! https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Sonia Sodha / @soniasodha: Thanks to excellent investigative journalism in UK we are starting to understand the price of some “journalists” trying to silence reporting on serious failings in the healthcare of children with gender dysphoria. The US has got some catching up to do. https://nytletter.com/
@jack_turban: A long list of @nytimes contributors just wrote to the paper, outlining its recent inaccurate reporting on topics related to #trans people The inaccurate reporting and refusal to correct harmful errors has gone on too long You can read the letter here: https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Kate Smith / @bykatesmith: Per BuzzFeed, “The letter... draws attention to the last year of coverage in the Times, during which time, the group writes, the paper of record published 15,000 words across its front pages ‘debating the propriety of medical care for trans children.’” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg / @theradr: I just signed. It's an excellent letter, rightly bringing receipts for all the homophobia and AIDS stigma that the Times stoked back when it could get away with it— and the concrete harm its incessant transphobia is having now. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: @binarybits The Times characterization of these groups vastly understates their aims—this is not a “parent's rights” movement, it is a power grab using trans kids: https://www.salon.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Put your name to this if you have a moment - this is particularly true if you're a New York Times contributor today or in the past as that will make more of an impact. https://twitter.com/...
Lexi McMenamin / @leximcmenamin: big day for the effort to call out the New York Times for their BS when it comes to covering trans life! 🏳️⚧️🔥 firstly, a letter from past and present NYT contributors: https://nytletter.com/ next, this effort from GLAAD outside the NYT offices today: https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Speaking of big open letters yadda yadda yadda: https://www.readtpa.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Niko Stratis / @nikostratis: I've made no secret about my feelings on the troubling rise in the anti-trans coverage in the New York Times' , as such I happily added my name to this open letter calling for change at the paper of record https://nytletter.com/
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Look at this, from @glaad's letter. This is utterly damning. The paper made an error and refused to correct it until people stopped agreeing to interviews. That is not how corrections are supposed to work. You make a mistake, you fix it. But not NYT. https://www.glaad.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Lyz Lenz / @lyzl: I am proud to sign this letter calling out biased reporting that harms the trans community and really, harms us all. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: “The letter's signatories... point to specific instances in the current legal battles to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth where the Times' coverage is used as evidence.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Proud to sign this letter as a Times contributor and @nyguild member.
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Someone's going to write a piece that's like, “Trans activists don't want NYT to report THE TRUTH!” (they call everyone a “trans activist") or “They want to silence alternative viewpoints!!!” but that will be a complete and total lie.
Ari Drennen / @aridrennen: Times contributors penned a thoughtful letter critiquing the pattern of troubling anti-trans bias in the paper's recent coverage but the world is divided into people who agree with Jesse Signal and bad-faith liars, he is now implying that the signatories were bullied into joining https://twitter.com/...
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost: New York Times Contributors Pen Open Letter Slamming Paper's Trans Coverage
Shira Stein / @shiramstein: Proud to see so many friends, colleagues and journalists I admire standing up against the pseudoscience and misinformation in the NYT's reporting on transgender health care. I stand with them. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: @binarybits No—it's far too broad. The missing point is, this is not about protecting children, and they admit it. And the reason I imagine some NYT reporting omits that fact is because the NYT is also pushing the idea that it is about protecting children.
Jo Livingstone / @jo_livingstone: This is your response to a complaint from hundreds of your own contributors? One comment tacked on to a dismissal of the GLAAD letter? This is outraging. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Gondelman / @joshgondelman: Many, many New York Times contributors (past and present) have signed this open letter criticizing the NYT's biased coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. I am one of them! This letter is worth reading and considering! https://nytletter.com/
Elon Green / @elongreen: I signed this. You cannot be a bulwark for democracy while treating the country's most vulnerable citizens like lab rats. https://twitter.com/...
Sydney Bauer / @femme_thoughts: I did not immediately sign this because I kept getting lost in newborn childcare but filled out the form to sign after I saw it went live today and remembered my error. Proud of my colleagues for organizing this and grateful for them speaking up: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Tabatha Southey / @tabathasouthey: Signed. Follow the link at the bottom to add your name if you're a: NYT Contributor/Freelancer NewsGuild Member Media Worker NYT Subscriber NYT Reader Trans rights are human rights. https://twitter.com/...
Zito / @_zeets: “In recent years and months, the Times has decided to play an outsized role in laundering anti-trans narratives and seeding the discourse with those narratives, publishing tens of thousands of handwringing words on trans youth...” https://hellgatenyc.com/...
@natachakennedy: This is a truly amazing letter to the @nytimes editor about its apalling coverage of trans people and its complicity in republican transphobia; We need something like this in the UK since the media is ultimately responsible for the death of #BriannaGhey https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: NYT “proudly” rejects the critique of its trans coverage, and implies that those people just don't seem to understand what journalism is. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: @melissagira Isn't “targeting the rights of gay and transgender people” a pretty straightforward statement that it's not just about parent's rights?
Rebecca Colesworthy / @rcolesworthy: “The Opinion editors gave noted cisgender heterosexual Pamela Paul space for her unfounded thoughts about how LGBTQ people should describe themselves, as if the Times could not find anyone with lived experience in the LGBTQ community to write about our issues.” This is so good. https://twitter.com/...
@ericthurm: Enormously proud to have been one of the writers and organizers working on this open letter decrying the New York Times' coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people, signed by over 180 NYT contributors & counting. Please read and share: https://nytletter.com/
David Klion / @davidklion: Proud to sign this. Speaking for myself, my concern is less with any individual reporter than with what seems like a top-down editorial strategy of uncritically amplifying the right's assault on trans people; not the first time NYT coverage decisions have bolstered the right. https://twitter.com/...
@leftistwriter: I am a trans woman and genocide scholar who has had enough of the @nytimes biased coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. Dozens of NYT contributors and current writers have signed this letter. Please read and consider signing on: https://nytletter.com/
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>I hope that the standards editor Philip Corbett takes it seriously. I hope that he + his other colleagues in senior positions at the paper, take seriously the feelings of this large number of people who create the newspaper. And my hope is that we hear back from Mr. Corbett.<< https://twitter.com/...
Rick Perlstein / @rickperlstein: Proudly signed this outstanding letter. If you've ever been a @nytimes contributor, you may wish to as well. https://nytletter.com/
Meg Rowley / @megrowler: You can sign in support as a non-contributor. I just did as a media member, but you can as a reader or subscriber, too. https://twitter.com/...
Wilson Cruz / @wcruz73: “The letter, which was expected to be delivered to the paper on Wednesday morning, includes more than 100 individual and organizational signatories declaring a need for significant changes to how the @nytimes reports on the trans community.” #LGBTQ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Also, you really don't get to sign the absolute joke that was the “Harper's Letter” https://www.readtpa.com/... and then whine about “outrage-oriented open letters.” What a fraud.
Tom Bevan / @tombevanrcp: Pro-trans activist mob issues list of demands to NY Times that includes a meeting with transgender leaders and “the hiring of at least two trans people for the opinion section and two people on the news side within three months.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: NY Times Accused of ‘Anti-Trans’ Coverage by Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Gabrielle Union, NYT Contributors, and Activists in Scathing Letter
Amal El-Mohtar / @tithenai: Here's an interview with Jo Livingstone, one of the organizers of the open letter. https://hellgatenyc.com/...
Amal El-Mohtar / @tithenai: I've added my name to this letter expressing “serious concerns about editorial bias in the [NYT]'s reporting on transgender, non-binary, & gender nonconforming people” & urge you to share it widely & do the same, especially if you're a contributor. https://nytletter.com/
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: It's all laid out quite clearly here in the first paragraph: the NYT views the rights and humanity of trans people as politically contestable — something that may be championed as part of an “advocacy mission” but cannot be a value embedded in a “journalistic mission.” https://twitter.com/...
Nikil Saval / @nikilsaval: I joined fellow @nytimes contributors in signing an open letter that expresses “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people.” https://nytletter.com/
Katelyn Burns / @transscribe: I was happy to sign onto this open letter by 180 current and former NY Times contributors criticizing the paper's recent turn in coverage of trans issues. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Zack Ford / @zackford: Well, I see the @nytimes has taken ZERO responsibility for the harm it has repeatedly done to transgender people with its constant parroting and spotlighting of right-wing talking points. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Muna / @muna_mire: A massive coalition of NYT contributors (180 and counting!) have signed an open letter calling out anti-trans editorial bias in the paper. Please share widely: https://nytletter.com/
Rosa Escandon / Forbes: GLAAD, Celebrities And Others Call For The New York Times To Stop ‘Biased’ Transgender Coverage
Fox News: Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus
Larisha Paul / Rolling Stone: Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman, More Accuse NYT of ‘Harmful’ Coverage of Trans People
The Guardian:
France's BFMTV suspended presenter Rachid M'Barki in January and launched an internal probe into news packages linked to Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge — Rachid M'Barki, one of channel's longest-serving hosts, suspended during inquiry into news packages linked to ‘Team Jorge’
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Jason Burke / @burke_jason: Meanwhile in France, TV channel's veteran presenter suspended during inquiry into news packages linked to disinformation specialists.... https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Paul Lewis / @paullewis: Investigation into Team Jorge already making waves in France. These people have been operating covertly all over the world so expect this will only be the start... https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Dr. Manisha Ganguly / @manisha_bot: France's BFMTV, has suspended one of its longest-serving presenters and launched an internal investigation into news packages linked to an Israeli disinformation unit calling itself “Team Jorge”. By @davidconn and me https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
AMC Networks Chairman James Dolan appoints his wife, Kristin Dolan, as the network's CEO, starting on February 27; Kristin is a former COO of Cablevision — Cable-TV company known for hits like ‘The Walking Dead’ has discussed potential deals with Roku, Sony and others; transition to streaming has been rocky
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Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel: AMC Networks, known for “The Walking Dead” has seen its market cap drop 80% in 5 years as owner James Dolan has spurned deals with the likes of Roku and Sony. Now he is looking for a CEO and his spouse Kristin has emerged as a candidate. $AMCX https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Patience / @patiencehaggin: AMC Networks has discussed potential deals with Roku, Sony and others A look under the hood from @jtoonkel https://www.wsj.com/...
Wilson Chapman / IndieWire: Nepo, Baby! AMC Networks Names James Dolan's Wife, Kristin Dolan, as CEO
Amol Sharma / @asharma: As forecast in the @jtoonkel piece earlier today: AMC Chairman James Dolan has named his wife, Kristin Dolan, as CEO. She runs a marketing analytics firm and has been a steady presence inside AMC. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dade Hayes / Deadline: AMC Networks Names Kristin Dolan CEO
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: AMC Networks Owner's Wife Kristin Dolan Named CEO
Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel: And an update to my story this AM ...AMC Networks Owner James Dolan Finds a New CEO: His Spouse https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
@vanthebrand: People are screaming nepotism but maybe that's backwards and the sad truth is he only married her because she'd make a good AMC Networks CEO https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog: did they add Renaldo Balkman to the cast of the walking dead or something https://twitter.com/...
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: AMC Networks Names Interim Executive Chairman James Dolan's Wife as New CEO
Bill Bradley / Adweek: AMC Networks Names Kristin Dolan CEO in Surprise Announcement
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Great story with a bonus hilarious deadpan euphemism: “Associates and former AMC employees describe Mr. Dolan as an exacting and unpredictable manager.” https://twitter.com/...
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: AMC Networks Names Kristin Dolan New CEO
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: James Dolan Fills AMC Networks CEO Job With Wife Kristin Dolan
Jennifer Maas / Variety: AMC Networks Names Kristin Dolan, Wife of Owner James Dolan, CEO
Joe Mandese / MediaPost: Kristin Dolan Named CEO Of AMC Networks
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters:
Roku reports Q4 revenue flat YoY at $867.1M, vs. $801.7M est., streaming hours up 23% YoY to 23.9B, and Q1 2023 revenue guidance above est.; ROKU jumps 10%+ — Roku Inc (ROKU.O) forecast first-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates on Wednesday, betting on its streaming devices and content platform to drive growth.
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David Satin / The Streamable: Roku Adds 4.6M Users Last Quarter to Rise to 70M; 23.9 Billion Hours Streamed in Q4 2022
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Roku Outperforms: Adds 10M Active Accounts, Stock Rises 12%
Daniel Frankel / Next TV: Roku (Finally) Surges on Better-Than-Expected Q4 Revenue
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Roku soars past revenue expectations as it bets on streaming devices to boost growth
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter updates its policies to allow cannabis ads targeting US states where cannabis is legal, promoting brands or providing info but not offering direct sales — Twitter on Wednesday updated its advertising policies to allow cannabis ads to run on its service in states where cannabis is legal, in accordance with federal guidelines.
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Twitter to Allow Cannabis Ads, Has ‘High Expectations’ as First Weed-Friendly Social Media Site
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Twitter allows cannabis ads in states where it's legal
Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: Elon Musk takes his marijuana friendliness to the next level as Twitter pitches itself as a home for cannabis ads
Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: From 404 to 420: Twitter Now Allows Weed Advertising
@junglejava1: Twitter becomes first major social platform to allow weed ads Mainstream advertising platforms have been reluctant to serve a federally illegal industry, in part due to concerns about existing advertisers not wanting to be positioned next to cannabis ads https://www.politico.com/...
Adam Jackson / Ad Age: Twitter will allow cannabis advertising in policy reversal
NewsNation:
Ohio's attorney general says charges against NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert have been dismissed; Lambert was arrested on February 8 at a press conference — (NewsNation) — Charges against NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert have been dismissed, the Ohio attorney general said Wednesday.
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Anna Meyer / WKYC-TV: Ohio Attorney General drops criminal charges against NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert following arrest in East Palestine
Fox News: Ohio train derailment: Charges dropped against national reporter covering small town's environmental disaster
Dave Statter / @statter911: A surprise for no one who viewed what happened to @EvanLambertTV. Hope to see a public apology & reaffirmation of their duty to support 1A from the National Guard & law enforcement involved. https://www.newsnationnow.com/ ... @BillRehkopf @JulieParkerComm
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: Charges Against NewsNation Reporter Dropped After Video Reveals Top Military Officer Shoving Him in Chest
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Charges dropped against arrested NewsNation reporter
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: NewsNation Reporter Breaks Silence After ‘Traumatic’ Arrest at Ohio Governor's Presser as Police Drop Charges
@newsnation: “The reporter was lawfully present at a press conference called by the Governor of the state. His conduct was consistent with the purpose of the event and his role as a reporter.” READ MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ ...
Kerry Breen / CBS News: Charges dismissed against reporter arrested while covering East Palestine train derailment
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate: What's Going On With the Train Derailment in Ohio?
Andrew Couts / @couts@mastodon.social: Charges against the NewsNation reporter, Evan Lambert, who was arrested while covering a press conference about the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, have been dropped: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ ...
David Matthews / New York Daily News: Charges dropped against reporter Evan Lambert after arrest during Ohio train derailment press conference
Chelsea Simeon / WKBN-TV: New video shows what led up to reporter's arrest in East Palestine
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Newsmax is complaining on air and online about DirecTV dropping the channel; any new deal can affect the terms of Newsmax's pacts with other pay TV providers — Viewers who have tuned into the conservative news channel Newsmax in recent weeks may think they are watching a telethon.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite: Ted Cruz Calls Newsmax ‘Fair and Balanced’ Moments After Host Says Every Cartel Member Has a ‘Biden Bumper Sticker’
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: DirecTV Tells Senators It Pays As Much For Conservative News as Liberal News
Oliver Darcy / CNN: DirecTV blasts Newsmax for pushing ‘inaccurate and misleading’ attacks after the right-wing network was dropped
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Newsmax trying to bully DirecTV — an using the threat of government hearings to do it — is a story I am following closely under the heading: Orbanization. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Maglio / IndieWire: DirecTV to Newsmax: Why You So Obsessed with Me?
John FitzGerald / @thetweetofjohn: Rob Thun, chief content officer for DirecTV, says “last I checked it's a free market. Our decision is based on economics, not political ideology.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: FCC nominee wants DirecTV probed for dropping Newsmax
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Sources: CNN last week terminated Federico Quadrani, Jake Tapper's executive producer, over a relationship with a subordinate, amid a separate HR investigation — It's been one year since former CNN chief Jeff Zucker resigned over his relationship with top exec Allison Gollust …
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Fox News: Jake Tapper's top producer out at CNN over inappropriate relationship in network's latest sex scandal
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite: Top CNN Producer in Charge of Jake Tapper's Show Dismissed Over Inappropriate Relationship with Staffer: Reports
Johnny Dollar / @johnnydollar01: CNN hit with another scandal, a year after Zucker resigns .@jaketapper exec producer was ousted last week after it came to light that he'd been hooking up with a subordinate. The news is spreading at CNN, one source said, warning, “It's going to get out.” https://pagesix.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
More competition has made mainstream media better than ever; Bari Weiss, Fox News, and others are incentivized to exaggerate the issues to sell their own wares — More competition means it's better than ever, but you hear more about the flaws — Fresh episode of Bad Takes is out today …
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Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The press of the good old days was much worse — journalists routinely colluded with government officials to cover up everything from serious national security matters to JFK's affairs and FDR's disability. The big difference is it worked! https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Back when the market was much less competitive if journalists wanted to control “the narrative” they could generally succeed, which made them seem trustworthy and authoritative. Today's media is better — you learn about the fuckups — so it seems worse. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Joey Coleman / @joeycoleman: Good essay explaining the contemporary media landscape - and why trust is declining because the public can see more of the news and its flaws. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: People like to get Mad At Articles for various reasons, but most of the time the audience puts very little affirmative value on accuracy and you to an extent get what you pay for. https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: I find myself agreeing with @mattyglesias here. If there's one problem I have with the news industry today, it's this: “most journalism isn't written for people who have some actual stake in obtaining tedious-but-true facts about the world.” https://www.slowboring.com/...
Greg Budzban / @gregbudzban: Interesting take on the history of trust in the media, by @mattyglesias https://open.substack.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: About declining trust in the news media we hear a lot. Attempts to explain it are more rare. @mattyglesias gives it a try here. One thing he says is that the product is a lot better, but ways to find fault and spread doubt have also advanced a lot. https://www.slowboring.com/... 1/2
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: “I think the basic story about declining trust in media is that the media industry became a lot more competitive to the point where it's pretty hard to say what exactly people are referring to when they talk about ‘the media.’” https://www.slowboring.com/...
Marvin Olasky / @marvinolasky: Good analysis. I wrote a lot about big press bias when people over-trusted journalism, but now under-trust is rampant. “Why you can't trust the media,” by @mattyglesias https://open.substack.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: “every participant in the project has a strong incentive to exaggerate how bad ‘the media’ is in order to sell their own wares” https://www.slowboring.com/...
Randell J. Kennedy / @campussources: Thoughtful observations on the #media by @mattyglesias “People have access to more and better information than ever before, so they're more ambiently aware of bad stories than they used to be.” https://www.slowboring.com/...
Jim Manley / @jamespmanley: I don't trust the author of the piece so imma going to take a pass https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Everybody hates the media. And everyone can find bad articles to point to that explain why they hate the media. But what explains the *change over time* is it really the case that the old media oligopolies of midcentury never messed up? My theory: https://www.slowboring.com/...
Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
After outlets sought the names of SBF's bail guarantors, a judge reveals Stanford Law emeritus dean Larry Kramer and Stanford computer scientist Andreas Paepcke — Two people who co-signed Sam Bankman-Fried's $250 million bail package have been have been publicly identified as a former dean …
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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Stanford Research Director, Former Dean Revealed to Be Bankman-Fried's Bond Signers
Eamon Javers / @eamonjavers: “In turn, we have sought to support them as they face their own crisis. My actions are in my personal capacity, and I have no business dealings or interest in this matter other than to help our loyal and steadfast friends...”
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Sam Bankman-Fried's bail backers revealed as Stanford's Larry Kramer, Andreas Paepcke
Eamon Javers / @eamonjavers: “During the past two years, while my family faced a harrowing battle with cancer, they have been the truest of friends - bringing food, providing moral support, and frequently stepping in at moment's notice to help...”
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Clearly, the judge wanted to teach S.B.F. and his lawyers a lesson. In short, stop screwing around. https://twitter.com/...
Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Former Stanford Law School dean contributed $500,000 as cosigner on Sam Bankman-Fried's bail bond
@lex_dao: With two Stanford Law professors as parents and two more Stanford faculty taking a supportive role. Even if we agree that family members & friends would aid one another, it is still an unfortunate look for a respected institution. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Eamon Javers / @eamonjavers: A judge just unsealed records showing that Larry Kramer, dean emeritus of Stanford Law School, co-signed a $500,000 bond on behalf of now disgraced former FTX crypto CEO Sam Bankman Fried. I asked Kramer why he supported SBF, and here's what he emailed me just now:
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Former Stanford Law School dean revealed to be the one who helped guarantee S.B.F.'s freedom by signing bond papers. https://twitter.com/...
Insider: We just learned the names of the 2 people secretly guaranteeing Sam Bankman-Fried's $250 million bond
MPR News:
Star Tribune names Steve Grove, Minnesota's commissioner of employment and economic development and a former Google executive, as its publisher and CEO — The Star Tribune has tapped Minnesota's commissioner of employment and economic development to take the paper's top job.
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@launchminnesota: Launch MN is grateful for @grove's continued support of our program. We are proud that the creation of Launch MN is part of his legacy and has been recognized by @GovTimWalz as one of @mndeed's major economic development achievements during his tenure. https://www.mprnews.org/...
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