The Guardian article

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I just read this in the Guardian, about Laverne Cox’s documentary.

www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/18/disclosure-laverne-cox-netflix-documentary-trans-representation

It includes this paragraph below, which seems to state JK Rowling as writing transphobic misinformation. Or am I reading this wrong? Have the guardian just decided to no longer give two sides to a story? What about truthful reporting?

That historical thread clearly runs into another headline in recent weeks: Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s essayof transphobic misinformation. Having already addressed Rowling’s comments as “deeply problematic” and the burden of representing a marginalized community in public – “The ‘divide and conquer’ method of pitting women’s rights against the rights of trans people has been a very effective tool for dividing marginalized people,” she told the Daily Beast – Cox declined to add more on the Rowling essay, other than to support actors from the Harry Potter franchise, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Eddie Redmayne, who have publicly refuted Rowling’s views.
“Go Emma, go Daniel, go Eddie,” Cox said.

The Guardian used to be a real newspaper. I don’t know why it has become such a mire of lazy dishonest opinionating (I can’t call it reporting) and in thrall to teenaged politics. A real loss. I still mourn it.

It's partly their plan to go for the US market to get greater readership. It's got them involved in a type of politics we're not used to.

Out of interest, wasn't Orange is the New Black a programme set in a women's prison? Why is Cox the only name I know from it?

Yes OITNB is set in a women’s prison. It has good reviews from what I’ve seen. Agreed, this is not reporting but opinionating. No digging deeper or any original thought put into this.

I still like a few women at the Guardian, Suzanne Moore and Hadley.

What about Lucy Mangan? Her column about Tory Boy (her husband) was witty and inciteful. Does anyone know why her coverage changed? Has she ever given any clues as to her thoughts on this subject?

The Guardian has for a long time now just been a place for the acting profession to share their worthy thoughts whilst being photographed in expensive clothes no one can afford unless they are rich. I got bored of that many years ago

I wonder why they refer to it as a documentary?

It's not really a news story, I'd say it's an opinion piece, so there isn't the same requirement to be balanced in terms of reporting.

"Cox declined to add more on the Rowling essay...'Go Emma, go Daniel, go Eddie,' Cox said."

That's not what declining to add more looks like.