#tuck talks about the history of the NYT’s coverage on queer issues including aids

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“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’?” This week, Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal, takes us on a journey through the New York Times’ coverage of trans issues—and in the end, he points the way to a better future.

A great episode talking about how journalistic objectivity has come to mean “doesn’t have any empathy for or connection to the people they’re talking about” and journalistic balance has come to mean “treating non-authoritative sources as equal to authoritative sources” particularly when it comes to the NYT’s coverage of trans topics.