The permanent advantages
The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.
So they finally figured that out, eh? Well done, but we already knew about those there permanent physical advantages of being born male. We knew and we said, over and over.
Will we see any apologies from the media outlets that got this so horribly wrong? Some of the ugliest things said to me on Twitter were from journalists who worked for liberal media outlets while the male boxer scandal was unfolding at the Paris Olympics.
And when they weren’t sending me nasty tweets and DMs, they published articles in which the most brainless claims were made and rabidly defended. I wrote a piece about the media’s meltdown at the time. At the bottom are screenshots of a dozen major left or centre-left media outlets that made staggeringly false claims about men in women’s sports, including the CBC, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, PBS, Mother Jones, Buzzfeed, The New Republic, the Associated Press…
Will there be firings? Resignations? Public corrections of the record? Any word at all from the liberal media, acknowledging its role in perpetuating outright lies to the detriment of women athletes?
There bloody well should be. And of course, it’s very doubtful we’ll see anything of the kind.
Meanwhile, Harper’s, the 175-year-old bastion of liberal-minded letters, has published a great big “forum-style” piece called Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? Anatomy of a credibility crisis, with four bylines — all liberals, all of whom blame the collapse of trust in the media on the right, on conspiracy theories, on Covid… no introspection whatsoever.
Jack Shafer, former editor at Slate and SF Weekly, whose area of expertise is supposedly “what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media” (per Wikipedia), goes so far as to say that the problem is the papers are just too good at their jobs:
Like their British counterparts at the Beeb, they’ve all fallen into their own echo chamber.
@Artymorty, sorry to hear about your experience. You mentioned “all liberals, all of whom blame the collapse of trust in the media on the right, on conspiracy theories.” I am reading NYTimes, WashPost, The Guardian and other UK newspapers etc. talk about what is going on with BBC, It is fascinating how they are utterly leaving out one of the key points of the Prescott’s memo about what BBC deliberately got wrong: an entire section of the memo is about “Biological sex and gender” and about “gender identity.” The liberal press is mentioning only in passing without any of these specific examples. So of course it is NOT only right wing criticizing BBC biased/censored coverage, Helen Joyce and others have been criticizing it.
Michael Prescott’s 19 page memo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/read-devastating-internal-bbc-memo-in-full/
archived at https://t.co/dkb0fZFzEo
biological sex and gender section https://archive.ph/pBmPv#biological-sex-and-genderundefined
Here are just a few examples [sorry i forgot how to make italicized quotes]
and many many more SPECIFIC instances.
Mobs of sheep have been known to do the same.
This sounds like Jack Shafer had a job interview and was asked what his greatest fault was and he said sometimes he’s just too much of an overachiever.
But meanwhile half his resume is fake.