When the U.S. women's soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup, fans were crushed,

but some of the usual suspects were crowing.

The team has shown more interest in being activists and fashion icons and celebrities than winning.

On this week's On The Media from WNYC, we examined the emptiness of the go-woke go-broke sloganeering.

Also on the show, five months after the two open letters to the times criticizing the paper's

coverage of trans issues has anything changed.

Over 200 New York Times contributors have published an open letter criticizing the times

recent coverage of stories involving transgender, non-binary, gender, non-conforming people.

What has all this coverage so far amounted to?

Even endangered an entire vulnerable minority and played into the hands of a pretty

aggressive political movement.

Once we have published, we don't control how rears of any kind are going to use our stories,

and I don't know that we should.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On The Media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Michael Lohinger.

In the wee hours of Sunday morning when most Americans were still asleep,

wow,

saving weddings.

Devastating loss, knocking the U.S. women's national soccer team out of the World Cup.

It was heartbreaking for us fans, considering the U.S. women's team

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