below is true but also applies to media employees talking about:
lgbtq+ people, abortion, sexual violence, civil rights for people of color and immigration.
subjects are politicized by public figures and then editors tell employees they can’t talk publicly about them anymore.
common practice.
lgbtq+ people, abortion, sexual violence, civil rights for people of color and immigration.
subjects are politicized by public figures and then editors tell employees they can’t talk publicly about them anymore.
common practice.
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Kat Tenbarge
I have two friends, neither of whom are politics reporters but who both work in “the media,” who both told me yesterday that they aren’t even allowed to write or post about Trump with work accounts because describing anything he’s doing objectively would appear “anti-Trump.”
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if you’re afraid that even speaking on a subject connotes political leaning and bias,
is there any topic impervious to this phenomenon? is democracy?
One of the reporters, who was gay, told me that his editors would automatically reject anything he pitched that so much as mentioned LGBTQ+ people