A child abduction case shows how the media hide the ball on 'gender identity'

Journalism is about sharing plain facts as clearly and as widely as possible. Its great enemy is euphemism. No reader wants to waste time trying to decode deliberately deceptive language or reading between the lines of news reports. If you’re looking for a puzzle, you would probably rather play the Sudoku. Unfortunately, everyone is being forced to do a lot of news decoding nowadays. Just look at the New York Times and Associated Press’s coverage of a recent child abduction case. …