Major American news sources not covering the Cass review

[user1477391263]

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1780786511358677421

CNN, CBS News, NPR appear to have basically blacked out the whole story - a major story which has been picked up by non-US sources across the world.

The US media appears to be so polarized on this issue that I am seriously wondering how and whether the US can actually come back from this.

[UtopiaPlanitia]

Mainstream American media needs to find a way to properly discuss the issue given that:

• a) this is an election year
• b) voters have alternative sources of information that will discuss the topic, so the MSM staying quiet isn’t going to stop this from being an issue voters care about.

[NoSnowdrop]

Love him or hate him this is what Elon Musk has been saying for a long time, that the mainstream media in the US is heavily biased and utterly captured by gender ideology.

[Pallisers]

The Boston Globe and the NYT have both covered it - but they have put their heads above the parapet before on this issue, even before Cass. The comment sections for each article were overwhelmingly approving of the Cass report.

The democrats should be reading those comments which are nearly always along the lines of "lifelong democrat here but this issue has been handled terribly" As a party, they have simply handed this issue to the MAGAs without any thought, reflection, or concern for women and children whatsoever. To this day, I never hear the words "pregnant women" on NPR. Pregnant people or folks only. You cannot convey the impact of Dobbs on women's health without using the word woman.

I don't recall Isla Blair and the consequences in Scotland being carried in any newspaper here. Lia Thomas was swimming in boston and breaking records and there was a tiny paragraph in the Boston Globe buried below local high school sports reporting.

[capitanaamerica]

CBS didn't cover the main Cass story at all, as far as I can see - but today they ARE covering Scotland (Sandyford) pausing prescriptions of puberty blockers for minors: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scotland-gender-identity-affirming-care-puberty-blockers-minors-lgbtq-transgender/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

The story itself is OK and has reasonable contextual background - but note, though, that their explanatory links are to US-based stories and not really relevant context. In the US press, anything to do with caution about youth healthcare related to transgender identities is treated in a very biased manner; state-level initiative proposing or enforcing limits and pauses similar to what Scotland has just done are routinely headlined as "anti-trans" proposals, policies, laws, etc.

Worth noting, too, that what's considered "newsworthy" in terms of international news by US mainstream outlets often relies on what comes across on the international wires. Reuters, for example, covered the original Cass Report story a week ago, but has not covered any of the subsequent comment in Parliament, from the UK govt, in the UK/intl media, and/or from the devolved governments/administrations: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/evidence-gender-care-remarkably-weak-says-major-english-review-2024-04-09/

[GenderlessVoid]

It's encouraging that WaPo covered it today. I'm a bit shocked at the dearth of coverage in the US given its importance to a very controversial topic.

https://archive.is/83ZJa