TransLash Presents: Capturing The New York Times
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Disinformers ultimately want their narratives to filter into trusted sources where they can almost imperceptibly begin to shift public opinion. In this episode, Imara dives into how Christian Nationalists have successfully made The New York Times—arguably the world’s most powerful news organization—into an agent of their views. The fact that they have done so is a degree of success beyond what they could have hoped. And the way that anti-trans ideas have embedded themselves at the paper has wide ranging impacts on trans people as well American democracy overall. Join us as we learned how this happened through the voices and stories of former and current New York Times staff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's Amara. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm so excited to bring you a new episode of Season 2 of the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. |
| 0:16.8 | With two new shows about the New York Times and right-wing media, |
| 0:21.3 | we're unpacking how the anti-trans disinformation ecosystem was both created and weaponized. |
| 0:27.6 | You can binge listen to the season by subscribing right now to the anti-trans hate machine |
| 0:32.6 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:45.6 | I describe it almost like a cult, right? |
| 0:50.5 | Because it's a culture that you imbibe from the people who are there before you. |
| 0:55.5 | And once you drink the Kool-Aid, I become a vessel for passing that on to others. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Amara Jones, and this is the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. Today we're going to take a deep dive inside the news organization that people wake up to every day to check. |
| 1:09.5 | The paper that captures the most pressing headlines of our time. The news source that people wake up to every day to check, the paper that captures the most pressing headlines of our time, |
| 1:13.0 | the news source that people all around the world turn to |
| 1:16.2 | to find out what matters, |
| 1:18.5 | and for journalists, to find out the stories worth covering. |
| 1:22.6 | The New York Times. |
| 1:24.6 | The journey that we're going on today |
| 1:26.3 | means telling hard truths about the times, |
| 1:29.5 | how the paper of record has been co-opted. Understanding how this happened means going inside a |
| 1:36.7 | powerful media organization all the way to the top. It's there among senior leadership |
| 1:42.1 | that decisions are made about what to cover and how to cover it. |
| 1:47.1 | And it's there at the top that we can see how the corruption of journalistic standards even happened. |
| 1:54.1 | With disinformation now rife in its pages, the paper of record has become a disinformer's wildest dream. |
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