When the Media Research Center complains that a story is not covered in non-right-wing media, you can assume that it’s a story that advances right-wing narratives. One example of this is a Feb. 2 CNSNews.com propaganda piece by Craig Bannister:
A landmark trial – in which an autistic detransitioner was awarded $2 million – that set a precedent for suing doctors who push and perform life-altering transgender surgery on minors was widely ignored by media.
On Friday, 22-year-old Fox Varian was awarded $2 million in damages when a jury found Psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and Surgeon Simon Chin guilty of ignoring standards of care and procedural protections by pressuring Varian to undergo permanent surgery when she was a 16-year-old minor.
[…]While the trial, held in the New York Supreme Court in Westchester County, had sweeping implications, reportedly, only one journalist attended the entire trial and only one other attended it occasionally.
Independent Journalist Benjamin Ryan, who covered each day of the trial, appears to be virtually the sole source of news of the groundbreaking proceedings.
You can bet that if the MRC considers someone an “independent journalist,” that reporter is a right-winger. Indeed, Ryan’s reporting on the case appeared at the right-wing Free Press, and he has appeared on right-wing podcasts and radio shows run y the likes of Megyn Kelly and Scott Jennings to tout his work.
By contrast, a pro-LGBT website pointed out that “Gender-affirming care for minors has been under attack from conservative politicians for several years” — something apparently not noted in Ryan’s work. Indeed, Bannister reported that Ryan gushed how “My sources suggest that tort law might permanently destroy this field.”
Tom Olohan similarly whined that the story didn’t get non-right-wing traction in a Feb. 17 post:
The Big Four News Apps just revealed a new low of depravity, ignoring a significant win that could encourage victims across the nation to seek justice. Despite a young woman winning a multi-million dollar judgment against her psychologist and her surgeon in a potential landmark transgender surgery case, the digital gatekeepers shamelessly buried her story.
Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News failed to cover the Jan. 30 judgment in the case Fox Varian v. Kenneth Einhorn PhD et al even once in their morning editions during the seven days that followed.
Olohan went on to accuse the apps of “the choice to ignore Varian’s suit in favor of clickbait” — but did not explain how, exactly, that equaled “depravity.”