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CBS execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: ‘This is not journalism’
NY Post ^ | March 30, 2023 | By Alexandra Steigrad

Posted on 03/30/2023 3:28:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Top executives at CBS News have banned staffers from using the word “transgender” when reporting on Nashville shooter — despite the fact police have said Audrey Hale was transgender and cited it as a key point in the case, The Post has learned.

“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News,” the network’s executives insisted in a Tuesday memo obtained by The 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.”

The CBS News directive was delivered on a Tuesday morning editorial call by Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, the executive vice president of newsgathering; and Claudia Milne, the senior vice president of standards and practices, according to sources close to the Tiffany Network.

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

Sources said Ciprian-Matthews and Milne spent 15 minutes on the Tuesday call discussing the directive — bewildering many journalists, given that the Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale was transgender and that her identity may be relevant to the motive.

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

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; demlies; democrats; homosexualagenda; journalism; media; medialies; nashville; perverts; press; transgender
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1 posted on 03/30/2023 3:28:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trans was that girls entire world focus, other than killing Christians.
😒


2 posted on 03/30/2023 3:30:09 PM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The NY Post had on its front cover “Transgender .....”. Inside stories did not hide that fact.

I will continue to get the Post as long as it continues to practice journalism.


3 posted on 03/30/2023 3:30:44 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CBS = Fake Stream News = They Are Activists and NOT Journalists


4 posted on 03/30/2023 3:30:50 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep! Leave it to these leftist media to want to hide the truth from the public because it doesn’t fit their narrative and agenda.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 3:32:11 PM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!)
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To: Enlightened1

They haven’t been journalists ever since obomination was elected!


6 posted on 03/30/2023 3:32:53 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”“Right now we advise saying: POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS A 28-YEAR-OLD AUDREY HALE””

Now THAT is a stupid statement. What’s “a” 28 year old Audrey Hale?

Twisting themselves into pretzels not knowing HOW to say what IT was!


7 posted on 03/30/2023 3:34:03 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sort of funny that CBS is now deadnaming the shooter because they are afraid to offend the transcrazies.


8 posted on 03/30/2023 3:34:41 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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“it has no known relevance to the crime”

Apparently THIS is why the manifesto is being hidden. So the creeps in the so-called “news” media can hide the connection.


9 posted on 03/30/2023 3:36:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Typical communist tactic. Project your sins on the victim. That’s what criminals do too. It was a terrorist attack against a Christian school. Expect more church burnings and vandalism.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 3:37:39 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So from now on none of their stories will include gender of the alleged perp? DOUBT IT!

So glad we’re only one day from the end of National Whatever-Gender Month.


11 posted on 03/30/2023 3:37:46 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CBS hasn’t practiced journalism since the 1960s.


12 posted on 03/30/2023 3:44:25 PM PDT by StrictConstructionist
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is coming from the same New York Post that refuses to identify a criminal suspect by race if the suspect is black.


13 posted on 03/30/2023 3:44:51 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And this is why people need to start considering leaving the United States in Droves. Because the government owned media is lying to us, They lie, the feds lie, the WH lies, Congress lies. We can’t stop them. The best thing to do is to leave. Take all our money out of the system and leave by the millions.


14 posted on 03/30/2023 3:46:08 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just say “Deranged Cross Dresser Who Thinks He Is A Girl”


15 posted on 03/30/2023 3:47:40 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: thegagline

This is coming from the same New York Post that refuses to identify a criminal suspect by race if the suspect is black.

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Most MSM use the term “teen” regardless of the perp’s actual biological age. As in, “Group of teens rampaged and looted Macy’s.” I seriously doubt they have ID’s and accurate ages of all the people involved, but somehow they are magically “teens.”


16 posted on 03/30/2023 3:47:43 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Someone asked a journalist why he could make fun of Christians but not Muslims. He said, “because Christians won’t kill you.” The same thing applies with “trans.”


17 posted on 03/30/2023 3:54:57 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The shooter in Nashville was a man, a perverted male.


18 posted on 03/30/2023 3:57:26 PM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Everyone knows his real name is “Billi Bob Redneck” Maga supporter, white racist from Alabama and sleeps with his guns and sisters and his cousins that he really does not know are his half-sisters. c /Sarcasm


19 posted on 03/30/2023 4:05:10 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Iron Munro

It was a girl that thought she was a man...


20 posted on 03/30/2023 4:06:17 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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