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transfobie is de nieuwe klimaatontkenning medium.com/@jaelholzman...

Anyway, my sense after many conversations with members of the press corps is this: reporters do not want to do a bad job at covering this topic. They know the stakes well enough and they do care. But they’re afraid to cover it out of fear that it’ll offend readers — like trans people angry over word choices, or activists to the social inclusion of trans rights. Except it’s not the job of journalists to go out of their way to not offend people, and there’s already an existing blueprint for how to write about science made controversial by politicians: climate journalism. It used to be acceptable — nay, required — for reporters to quote climate change deniers in the regular course of covering the politics around decarbonization. Over time, we in the press decided we should not give equal weight to climate denial. In 2013, the letters editor for the Los Angeles Times cited the scientific consensus to say they’d never publish climate denial in that section again. Well, what if I told tha
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