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Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right's New White Woman Mascot
How this story is being covered
Extra Extra has grouped 8 reports on this story from 8 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 2 left-leaning and 6 right-leaning sources.
Its coverage-diversity score of 51 out of 100 means the story is being reported across multiple parts of the spectrum, though the volume leans toward one side. Interestingly, the story is being covered on the left and the right but not by the centrist outlets we track — a sign it may be more polarizing than consensus-driven.
On reliability, 1 of the 8 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 7 outlets fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
Coverage of this story has developed over roughly 27 hours, so the perspectives below capture how the framing shifted as the story matured.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: Salon, The Intercept, The American Spectator, PJ Media, The Western Journal, Legal Insurrection, RedState, Fox News.
Left(2)
SalonCAug 9, 1:00 PM
Conservatives find their fighter in Sophie Cunningham
The anti-trans movement in sports needed a face. It found one in the WNBA player
The InterceptBAug 9, 9:10 PM
Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right's New White Woman Mascot
The WNBA star has become the latest symbol in the right’s campaign to define which women deserve protecting—and which do not. The post Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right’s New White Woman Masco
Center(0)
Right(6)
The American SpectatorCAug 10, 4:27 PM
Sophie Cunningham
PJ MediaDAug 9, 11:29 PM
Sophie Cunningham Got Hit, and Sports Illustrated Called It ‘Karma’
The Western JournalDAug 10, 1:57 PM
Florida AG Says Sophie Cunningham Hit Would Have Resulted in Charges if Game Had Been Played in His State
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the WNBA would have faced a different response in his state after Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington hit Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham during […]
Legal InsurrectionCAug 10, 12:00 PM
WNBA Player Ejected for Clotheslining Sophie Cunningham Issues Ominous Warning
"The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women." Except for leaving out the word "affluent," he's not wrong. WNBA Player Ejected for Clotheslining Sophie Cunningham I
RedStateDAug 10, 4:01 PM
The WNBA Is Going to Be Sweating Bullets When Sophie Cunningham Pulls Off Her Next Baller Move
Fox NewsCAug 10, 4:10 PM
Payton McNabb: The backlash against Sophie Cunningham proves the goalposts have moved
Payton McNabb, whose career ended after a male athlete's spike caused a traumatic brain injury, explains why Sophie Cunningham's stand matters.
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