Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams In its landmark 2009 decision on responsible communication in the public interest, Canada’s highest court asserts this principle: “Freedom does not negate responsibility. It is vital that the media act responsibly in reporting facts on matters of public concern, holding themselves to the highest journalistic standards.” If the Toronto Star does not live up to this responsibility in everything it publishes — in the newspaper, on its websites and through social media — we undermine our credibility with the public. As the Star’s then-publisher, Beland Honderich said in November 1972 on the occasion of the opening of the Star ’s new offices at One Yonge St.: “The most valuable asset a newspaper can have is its reputation for telling the truth.” – The Toronto Star’s proclaimed “principles“ On Saturday, January 4, 2014, the Toronto Star ran a column that featured the shocking – and totally unsubstantiated
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to media, rhetoric, and discourse, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax” provides dated evidence of how media, rhetoric, and discourse was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is research ethics and data governance and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to media, rhetoric, and discourse and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community85%
- 3Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication80%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life65%
- 5Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life15%
Academic framing
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- 338%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 250%
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How “Media, rhetoric, and discourse” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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Documented circulation and reception
2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveToronto Star’s editoral problem | The Transadvocate
[…] aside the proven falsehood that merely asserting that one is trans is all one need do in order access sex-segregated areas at […]
Toronto’s Scar | ENDABlog 2.0
[…] Williams at TransAdvocate, detailing how the Toronto Star is doing the work of right-wing radphlegms for them by employing […]
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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