7/24/2023 0 Comments Social questions nytimes![]() Quantity of coverage doesn’t necessarily translate to quality of coverage after all, a previous FAIR study ( 5/5/22) found right-wing Breitbart covering trans issues more than either centrist paper, but in a way that didn’t even pretend to treat its subjects with respect. (The Times did finally publish an article on its front page analyzing the increasing centrality of trans issues to the GOP, after the study period- 4/16/23.) This suggests that not only did the Post take trans-focused stories to be more newsworthy than the Times, it also is paying closer attention to the way trans rights weave into other stories, such as the larger web of right-wing strategies of scapegoating and censorship. Likewise, the Post ran more front-page stories that were primarily about other issues but mentioned the word “transgender,” with 54 to the Times‘ 30. The Post put trans-centered stories on its front page 22 times during that year-long period at the Times, trans issues were deemed front-page news only nine times. While not capturing the entirety of a paper’s coverage of an issue, front-page coverage reveals both how important editors believe an issue to be and which angles of that story they believe to be most newsworthy. ![]() Front-page frequencyįAIR examined all front-page stories at the New York Times and Washington Post that centered on transgender and nonbinary people, and the politics and events engulfing them, from April 2022 through March 2023. The Times, meanwhile, used its front-page coverage primarily to wonder whether trans people’s rights and access to healthcare have gone too far. And both have a recent history of ceding the framework of their trans coverage to the right wing, as a political football rather than an attack on trans people’s right to bodily autonomy and self-determination (, 5/6/21).īut looking at a full year of front-page coverage from the two papers reveals that, while both papers still need to do a much better job of including trans and nonbinary sources, the Post has given trans issues significantly more attention than the Times, and with an approach largely focused on the right-wing political campaign against trans people. This study seeks to document the Times‘ bias in numbers by comparing it to its closest competitor: the Washington Post.īoth elite papers have a national audience and closely cover national political stories-which puts the right’s campaign to criminalize transness very much in their line. Many critics, including FAIR (e.g., 6/23/22, 12/16/22), have offered detailed critiques of many of these pieces and writers. ![]() ![]() A FAIR critique ( 6/23/22) of a New York Times story on trans healthcare. ![]()
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