Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

In modern journalism there are three sides to every story: their side, their side reinforced – and “shut up”.

The Columbia Journalism Review allowed a liberal activist to set a new standard for transgender reporting by publishing her view that people who are critical of transgender athletes should be excluded from reporting on the subject. The activist and CJR, both posing as authorities on journalism ethics, declined to comment on the standard they are pushing. […]

 
The Daily Caller asked CJR about its decision to publish a piece by Media Matters for America editor-at-large Parker Molloy, in which she explicitly pushes for fewer perspectives and fewer voices in reporting on whether it’s fair for biological men who identify as women to compete in women’s sports. MMfA is a self-described liberal activist non-profit.
 
Molloy criticizes journalists for including quotes from people who disagree with the policy in their coverage of the controversy — a standard journalism practice — even in pieces that consist almost entirely of the perspective of the transgender athletes who want to compete, and which are obviously framed in their favor. People who don’t have “all the facts,” i.e. the right facts according to transgender activists, shouldn’t be quoted in stories, Molloy says.
 
Many transgender athletes have garnered glowing profiles of their successes and sympathetic reports on their struggle to convince critics that it’s fair for them to compete with women as biological men. They rarely, if ever, include the voices of the women and girls who lose out to these athletes in competition, and often give only a passing mention to their critics.

22 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. Yet they,the media groups and graduates,remain bewildered by the publics refusal to buy their product.
    Perhaps instead of telling us what they want to be,they could try out some honesty and the 5 W’s.
    $600 million does not buy much anymore.
    Yes I know the media under discussion is from the USA, but even $100 million $US did not help them much either and it was a secret.Until it expired.
    The current talking point of our media party is Trans everything, yet the poor “victims” represent less than 1% of the population, so what is the media selling?
    Get Woke Go Broke?

  2. “Competitors’ parents claim [transgender track stars] have an unfair advantage”

    They identify as white?

  3. As with any of these stories about folks that call black white and rename gender for transient and fashionable reasons, they can lie to themselves all they want.
    But I have only one condition.

    Don’t tell me its raining on my shoes.

  4. Its like hands over ears and ” la la la…i cant hear you…”

    Time for the adults to be back in charge…sigh….

  5. Look. There was no golden age when the press gave a damn about the truth. Their undoing began when corporations found cheaper ways to convince people to buy crap they didn’t need than to advertise in the paper, and politicians found other means of spreading disinformation. Facebook, Google amd Twitter have been more than helpful there.

    It was Reverend Aberhart who thanked God that there would be no newspapers in heaven. I shudder to think what he might have said about social media.

    1. Streep is being very charitable to her own sex. The root of all evil is not money. It’s woman.

  6. Have you heard about all the fish death in the pacific?

    In this article here https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1038521

    it says

    But seas and marine life are also under attack from other directions. Mr. Guterres painted a picture of overfishing; underwater deserts in effect, with no oxygen; seas filled with poison and trash, and species becoming extinct within decades.

    Funny how all the worlds governments and media have conveniently forgotten about Fukushima.

    We have short memories or information overload?

    1. Cause Fukushima turned out to be not that big a problem. It was a larger scale disaster that Chernobyl, but started with better safer reactor design, better response, …

      Even Chernobyl is less than 100 deaths in the 20 years since. Has Fukushima even had a single death attributed to it?

    2. And for extra bonus points, our troll has posted a link diectly from the UN. Bravo, true believer!

      1. I worked in every nuclear plant in Canada, I know the killing affects of radiation, many good men have died from exposure and Fukushima leaking into the pacific since 2011 and continues to do so even today according to you two trolls everything you’ve read says everything is ok so tell me who is the Trolls.

        You both believe what you read and the UN article that I posted was to point out that they were not mentioning Fukushima at all coincidence or on purpose.

        Any sea food from the pacific is off limits at my dinning room table you boys go ahead and eat it all up.

        1. Here is an example of a religious argument; WTF arguing the discredited a century ago “no safe level of radiation” old canard. At this point, you have to assume anyone who still believes that nonsense is just another cult member.

          https://www.radiation-hormesis.com/cold-war-propaganda/
          https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people/#71c9d98f41fc
          https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/#603a43981688

          “The worst energy accident of all time was the 1975 collapse of the Banqiao hydroelectric dam in China. It collapsed and killed between 170,000 and 230,000 people.”

          Let’s compare that to the zero deaths from Three Mile, zero from Fukushima, what is it, 89 they have attributed to Chernobyl?

          https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html

          Nuclear is the only way to go, if you want to keep living the way we do today. If you want to go back to subsistence farming and sod house? Listen to WTF.

        2. wot thee eff…………ever hear of the term SCALE?????

          OH, and I’v driven past every nuke plant in Canada, so I am just as smaterer as you

      2. The official story

        The Canadian province of Quebec’s newly elected Parti Quebecois government announced on Tuesday that it has decided to shutter the province’s 30-year-old Gentilly-2 nuclear plant.

        The decision by the recently elected party, which has advocated for national sovereignty and secession from Canada, is a reversal of the previous Liberal government’s plan to invest in refurbishment of the CANDU reactor.

        Real reason, reactor cement cracked open, plant leaking radiation.

  7. I hate repeating myself (like the ollllld man I am … 63years olllld) … but I was FOREVER BANNED … from commenting on the Daily Mail … because I questioned the newsworthiness of a lesbian kiss over a heterosexual kiss. That is now designated as “HATE” speech, despite the fact that I said nothing “HATEful” about soccer star, Abby Wambach and her wife.

    This is the intolerant, one-sided, Geysteppo ENFORCING only the “right” opinions. They are hell bent on SILENCING anyone who questions LGBTQqqU-too. Which is what? About a person’s “sexuality” … who cares!? But that’s the problem now isn’t it? … the LGBT’ers INSIST you care. They DEMAND you … care about how they tickle their privates. What a JOKE. They are a JOKE. This is NOT what … “equal” … looks like. As long as they pull this shit … they are NOT … “equal”. They will NEVER be “equal” if they cannot “tolerate” contrary opinions about their “preciousness”

    1. I think they are saying”You must validate my existence”
      “Validate me or I will hold my breathe until you do”.
      Tolerance is only understood by people who have it.
      These intolerant illiberal emoters only understand very basic signals.
      Pain might work, as a communication device.
      Now they have banned all words and closed down soft communication, they may be utterly surprised by the form communication takes next.

      History and Human nature,things fools and bandits must deny.

    2. Its really simple – when a Cause-du-Jour becomes a protected species, its like investing in renewables – it ( the cause ) has zero value unless the govt effectively underwites it….as it couldn’t survive in the court of normalicy.

      So in effect, the normal public get belted over the head to approve of those who stomp around demanding …what….? That we approve of something we dont care about nor should have to?

      They can go jump.

    3. What heck Kenji, I am older and have been banned from WAPO for a very long time now. Truth is unacceptable to WAPO.

  8. Publishing this stuff does get people to buy papers, they’d be fine without it. But the people are buying entertainment, and are no more persuaded by it than they are by the realism in a marvel comic.

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