readers on monday. we have made one massive mistake. i have thought about it for nearly three solid days and i ve run out of ways to kick myself about it. how did it never occur to any of us? how? how could we have all blown it? that mistake was someone familiar with the transgender community should have read caleb s football draft. this never occurred to us. nobody ever brought it up. simmons also declined to be here today. the controversy had many of us in the newsroom this week asking what ethical questions can those of us in the media take away, if any? here with me now to discuss in no, tiq milan, a senior media strategist of national news at glaad, and in chicago espn.com writer and editor christina kahrl. welcome to you both. thank you. thank you, brian. christina, you wrote an essay for grantland about what went wrong in this case. tell me what you think the difficulties are for the media in writing about transgender men and women. well, some of it is just basically a p
awkward and unplanned. she called it the bad luck of the draw, it happens sometimes in cable news. and i m going to put her full comments online right after the show. moving on to i would say a more important story now, earlier this month the sports and pop culture blog grantland published a gripping story about the inventor of a highly specialized golf club. the title was dr. v s magical putter. dr. v was dr. essay anne vanderbilt. 2/3 of the way through the story the writer, caleb hannon, revealed that dr. v, an intensely private person, was a transgender woman. then at the very end hannon revealed that dr. v had killed herself last fall while caleb was busy researching and writing his story. he declined to be here today. readers and lgbt advocates strongly criticized grant for the story and some even accused the site of causing dr. v to commit suicide. grantland s editor in chief bill simmons says that s a false conclusion. but simmons is up front about the failures that occurred
0 wilson, the united states was never a member. the united nations of course replaced the league of nations after the second world war. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. stay tuned for reliable sources. good morning from a frigid washington, d.c. when 19-year-old pop star justin bieber does something stupid, it is impossible for the press to look away. so then how should reporters approach the story? and here s another more important story. the blog grantland under fire for a piece about the private life of an inventor of a magic putter who committed suicide during the reporting process. the reporter had learned that the inventor was a transgender woman. we ll ask what lessons can be learned from this. plus my exclusive interview with robert redford, a visit to comcast headquarters in philadelphia, and insights from andrea mitchell, glenn beck, cory booker, and the pope. we ve got a great show ahead today. i m brian stelter, and