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TerriRBG's avatar

It’s not just abortion. Because conservative religion is privileged even above the law in this country all women’s rights issues are discussed as though they are controversial. Misogyny is treated like a valid cultural value under the cover of religion or tradition.

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Rosalind 🍁's avatar

Bravo for giving coverage to the threat to democracy of Both Sides journalism. As well as women’s right to bodily autonomy, this has long been a danger in the fight fir climate action, vaccinations, and other issues where equal weight is undeservedly given to scientific denialism over scientific research.

I dare to suspect that it is not necessarily pure journalism ethics that keeps many mainstream newspapers from providing accurate coverage of these issues. Rather it reflects a financial desire to keep readership numbers up. This was a losing proposition the moment that self serving, bombastic, unqualified, self-styled leader and his ilk began instructing followers not to pay attention to any mainstream news sources. Follow the money and the devastating trail of those who thirst for power above all else.

Journalists don’t tend to take flat-earthers seriously yet have inexplicably chosen to provide equal coverage to opinions based on a centuries old constitution and a millennia old collection of folk tales that was abjured by the very person that ultra right-wing bigots profess to follow, the one who encouraged a life guided by compassionate charity towards all others, women and men.

Providing equal coverage validates the actions of a minority who have been manipulated into being the foot soldiers of those whose ultimate goal is to overwhelm the majority. When they actively and openly gerrymander voting district boundaries and legislate voting barriers to hold onto power, their actions are not democratic and every ethical news source should be united against them.

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