How gender identity is corrupting journalism

Nov 03, 2022

New York Times is one of the newspapers that regularly mislead its readers

This story about Hadley Freeman got me thinking….

Private Eye reports on Hadley Freeman leaving the ⁦@guardian⁩ over Viner’s stance on the gender debate and her refusal to allow debate and investigations into Mermaids.

Kath Viner isn’t the only one guilty of journalistic fraud during the gender years. I asked my subscribers to send their examples of ideologically freighted, reality-denying journalism. Here are some of the responses.

"History-making ‘Jeopardy!’ champ becomes show’s top female earner" by Adam Barnes, The Hill.

“They called this man a FEMALE. Not trans-woman, but FEMALE."

You will recall the unspeakable BBC treatment of a survivor of rape,

The ubiquitous 'cone of 'trans' silence' was placed over this report. No mention that the rape happened in a women's shelter. No mention that the man told the staff that he was a 'woman'. This should be cross-country news, even world news -- but no. Journalistic cone of silence in service of the 'gender' ideology. It's everywhere, everyday. How can the public voice an objection if incidents like this are so poorly 'reported'?

Here it is properly reported by Reduxx. Look at the man they're protecting.

The reporting on 'Chloe Thompson' aka Andy McNab was incorrectly reported in-

The Evening Gazette

LBC

The most disgraceful news coverage is of David Dana Rivers who killed a lesbian family. A lesbian married couple and their son an aspiring nurse.

It was literal lesbian erasure, yet the Washington post do not use the word lesbian once. For Rivers, they use ‘woman’ three times and ‘she’ five times.

The top 10 news results on page one use 'She'

Jon Ronson should be required to remake episode 6 about the lesbian Mich-Fest in his Things Fell Apart series. He tells the story without once mentioning that trans-activist Dana Rivers, who protested against Mich-Fest, subsequently murdered a lesbian couple and son. Peak journalistic failure and bias.

Here's one of Rivers quotes:

Rivers compared himself to lesbian women at the festival, stating that although they had been “born with vaginas … it was obvious to me and to them that I was more female than they were.”

An example from the U.S. just this morning, from the totally captured National Public Radio, on Morning Edition today: "A warning for listeners here: he's about to use violent, transphobic language:" Lisa Hagen, NPR

She also repeats the disproved claim that "In reality, transgender people were murdered at RECORD NUMBERS in the last two years." In reality, the tiny numbers show a slight dip in 2020 (from 31 in 2019 to 28), then a steep rise in 2021 (to 53)--probably mirroring the overall huge increase in TG identification in the U.S.:

The total seems to be negligible compared to the overall U.S. homicide stats, which show increases in the murder rates since 2019.

This piece is about far-right rad fem fascists, my favorite part: "The reason is that “TERF” no longer means the same thing it did 20 or even 10 years ago."

The first time the term TERF had been reported was 2008, so "20 years" is more than a stretch.

The BBC is factually wrong: they claim that Primark have made their changing rooms "female only" whilst acknowledging they are for "all women and no identities will be checked". I pointed out that Primark have not said this, but the BBC say they will not correct their claim.

Not sure if this, from today, deserves to be anywhere near the word 'journalism' or 'journalist' [Ryan Coogan. Looks like Quentin Letts on crack]...

Contains the lovely, warming segment...

'We have all now realised that racism, feminism, homosexuality – and any other identity – are matters of basic human compassion, and shouldn’t be the subject of “debate” because the debate itself is so dehumanising to begin with.'

Yes. That's right. One's race, one's being female, or being homosexual, are just 'identities'. Well I never knew, did you?

The journalistic fraud is official in the webpage called "Trans Journalists Association Style Guide" which does not have any names in credits, but has pushed their rules into the major US news outlets.

It features this shocking advice:

'Don’t ask for or publish a person’s criminal history unless it’s completely relevant.

Be aware that trans people are disproportionately criminalized and policed. If the person you’re reporting on has a criminal record, reporting that information could have consequences for that person. For instance, it could make it harder for an individual to find work. Reporting on that criminal record also perpetuates stereotypes about trans people. If that history is not relevant to the story, you should not report it. If it is, you should consult with the individual about whether they are comfortable with that information being published. Before proceeding, discuss the potential negative impact publishing such information could have on them. You may need to find a different source or give the source anonymity if you cannot proceed with the story without publishing their criminal history. Publishing such information is rarely in the public interest. Consider killing a story if you have no alternatives.'

Germany's leftwing liberal flagship taz (short for Tageszeitung) is full of it. They run their own section "Gender and Sexuality".

There they give their definition of gender: "Gender means Gender Identity, which is determined socio-culturally, as opposed to biological sex" - as if gender and gender identity were the same thing.

Here they feature a slide show of an "Eight-year-old drag queen".

That's a guest column by a DJ bemoaning the lack of "FINTA*"s as DJ's. This is a German acroncym for "Frauen (Women), Inter*, Non-Binary, Trans* and A-gender" - as if this was one coherent group. In the piece, the female DJ writes about her experiences with sexual harassment but specifically describes this as a problem that would affect the supposed group as a whole - i.e. by using the acronym she very explicitely claims that transpeople were subjected to the same extent and the same form of harassment she is.

In this article, they claim that science has just discovered a trans fish:

This is of course "Against the old world order".

Btw, quite a few species of fish actually change sex, and they do it due to specific environmental necessities. Biologists have known and written about this for quite a while, and it doesn't make the fish trans. Because we can say that the fish doesn't change sex according to its own volition. Nevertheless, taz calls said fish trans and says that talking about biology is for biology classes.

Here, a self-described queer author writes that: "Sex is assigning a function to a body". (Theoretically, he could mean gender as the word is the same in German, but in this context, he would specifically use the term, so he means biological sex.) There is tons more just in that one outlet. Also, Freitag, a left-leaning weekly, caved in to transideology a while back.

I complained to IPSO (and the paper) about this.

They will not correct the heading or state that this person is a man because "you were third party to the complaint". So it is my belief that IPSO is also captured.

If "youtube science journalism" counts, and I believe it does as many people are probably referring to youtube for sciece, especially kids; then science channels like AsapScience and Professor Dave Explains are examples. Most egregious as they try to spin it as scientific when it is clearly not.

By the way, Professor Dave turned his comments off because everyone was disagreeing with him and he threw a tantrum. Maria MacLachlan from Peak Trans has a hilarious video about it.

ABC News’s uncritical promotion of Jazz Jennings:

Unusual for the daily mail, but they don't take the obvious step to acknowledge that this doubing of the numbers of ‘female’ paedophiles may be based on identity not sex. It then highlights the much rarer actual biological female offenders in the article.

What about the Guardian article re the trans-identified footballer in the Gaelic women's team? They said they didn't print the photograph to protect the player's safety. Aye right. They didn't add the photo because 'she' is a MAN!

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