CBS News Bans Word ‘Transgender’ in Reports on Nashville Trans-Terrorist School Shooter

Just to be clear, this is not new. The media is well practiced in scrubbing motive from heinous crimes by members of a privileged class. This is standard operating procedure in jihad and Islamic attacks. Any mention of Islam, even as the attacker is declaring their allegiance to Allah, is deemed “islamophobic” and “racist.”

This strategy is well worn and tried and true.

It’s why they won’t release the trans-terrorist manifesto.

CBS News bans word ‘transgender’ in reports on Nashville transgender school shooter

“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News.”

By: Mia Ashton, Post Millennial, March 31, 2023:

CBS top executives banned staff from using the word transgender in reporting on the Nashville shooter in spite of the fact that police stated Audrey Hale was transgender and that this was considered to be an important point in the case, reports the New York Post.

“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News,” said a staff memo from the network’s top executives obtained by The New York Post. “As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime. Should that change, we can and will revisit.”

“Right now we advise saying: POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS A 28-YEAR-OLD AUDREY HALE, WHO THEY SHOT AND KILLED AT THE SCENE,” reads the memo. “And move on to focus on other important points of the investigation, community and solutions.

The directive was given on Tuesday morning during an editorial call by Ingrid Cirprian-Matthews, vice president of news gathering; and Claudia Milne, the senior vice president of standards and practices, according to the New York Post’s sources.

Update: Police identified the suspect as a 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who they shot and killed at the scene. CBS News is still working to confirm Hale’s gender identity.

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 28, 2023

The call reportedly took 15 minutes and left many journalists bewildered due to the fact that Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale was transgender and that this identity could be relevant to the motive.

“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider told the New York Post. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it but withholding information is not journalism.”

The directive is evident in CBS coverage of the story. On Monday, just hours after the shooting, Janet Shaman reported that Hale “identifies as transgender” on CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.

On Tuesday, mention of Hale’s gender identity had disappeared from the network’s coverage……