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Publisher of mass shooter's writings at risk, but establishment media, press advocates eschew story
Just the News ^ | 6/19/24 | Madeleine Hubbard

Posted on 06/19/2024 6:10:27 PM PDT by CFW

Tennessee Star editor-in-chief Michael Patrick Leahy unveiled the Nashville Covenant School mass shooter's personal writings earlier this month, but no mainstream news outlets appear to have reported about the revelations, and only one has reported on the subsequent legal battle that Leahy faces for uncovering the documents.

Additionally, while journalists' rights organizations traditionally would have provided counsel to a reporter like Leahy in court, few are willing to comment on the case, and Leahy is being represented by America First Legal and Daniel Horwitz, a Nashville-based attorney who focuses on the First Amendment.

Outlets such as Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, NBC News and Reuters have not published any articles regarding the writings of shooter Audrey Hale, a biological female who identified as a male, since Leahy first reported on the issue earlier this month. The Associated Press briefly reported on the matter, but only in regards to the court hearing that Leahy faced after publishing news articles about Hale's writings.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: audreyhale; banglist; firstamendment; hale; lgbtq; media; mentalillness; tennessee; trans; transgiblets; xyxx
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Rather amazing the silence from media outlets in regards to this obvious First Amendment violation.

The Democrats have learned that lower courts will give them what they want. It takes a few years for a case to make it to SCOTUS and by then their goal has been met.

All they have to do is get rid of a few conservative justices and then SCOTUS will not matter at all.

1 posted on 06/19/2024 6:10:27 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Linky no worky.

Takes you back to FR “Post Article”


2 posted on 06/19/2024 6:20:59 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: CFW

“Rather amazing the silence from media outlets”

They’ve been SPIKING stories as long as I can remember. The first time that I really noticed it was in 1992, when the largest protests in the US since the Vietnam War, to this day (at least when measured by arrests made), yet how many Americans know what it is, even back then. I doubt 1% of the country knew.

The only thing that surprises me is that the media continues to use this technique, and even more so, that it still works, very effectively.


3 posted on 06/19/2024 6:21:35 PM PDT by BobL
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One other - Remember Monica Lewinsky - one of the big networks, I think NBC, had the scoop and SPIKED it. Drudge ended up having to break the story...and now they got Drudge, so stories like this are relegated to be Outback of the Internet.


4 posted on 06/19/2024 6:23:54 PM PDT by BobL
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To: CFW

Freedom of the press has been twisted into certain news being blacklisted.


5 posted on 06/19/2024 6:28:00 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Some powerful forces seem to be keeping a lid on this.

In other words, the truth is a blockbuster.


6 posted on 06/19/2024 6:29:33 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: lightman

Try this.

https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/tennessee-reporter-faces-jail-publishing-leaked-quotes-christian-school-shooter


7 posted on 06/19/2024 6:32:51 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

The cabal’s control over the media is not what it once was; the death of this worldwide crime syndicate is imminent.

What we’re seeing now are the death spasms.


8 posted on 06/19/2024 6:36:51 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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Big brother, where are thou?

Over here, Waldo.


9 posted on 06/19/2024 7:10:35 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: CFW

Trannies love to provide violins concertos.

They are mental cases, like most libs.


10 posted on 06/19/2024 7:19:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: reasonisfaith
What we’re seeing now are the death spasms.

I want to believe that.

If it is true, it will still take a final push to make the cabal fall over. I am unsure who and what will make that happen. But as a friend once told me, "Nothing happens until somebody does something".

Thrashing claws and teeth of a dying monster are still dangerous. And it is important to stay out of the blast radius of whatever takes it down. Ranged weapons and indirect fire are good to have on our side.

11 posted on 06/19/2024 8:51:48 PM PDT by flamberge ("Revolution is the kicking in of a rotten door" - Robert Heinlein)
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After reading your post, BobL, I’m STILL among the 99% who don’t know about it, lol.
If you want to tell us about an event the news media spiked, then TELL US ABOUT THE EVENT!

Who participated in this massive 1992 protest?
Where did it take place?
What were they protesting?

Be well, FRiend.


12 posted on 06/19/2024 9:20:09 PM PDT by Ignatz (The bees don't bother to tell the flies that honey tastes better than dung.)
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“Who participated in this massive 1992 protest?
Where did it take place?
What were they protesting?”

LOL, at least you admit that the spike worked on you. You likely heard bits of it, but not the fact that hundreds of people were being arrested, daily, for weeks (maybe months).

1. Operation Rescue
2. Wichita Kansas, summer, 1992
3. Abortion, particularly a horrific butcher there

At the time, I was reading daily 5 sentence blurbs on page 18 of the local newspaper saying that, 189 people arrested one day, then 347 people arrested the next day...more people arrested there than on Jan 6th.


13 posted on 06/19/2024 9:29:58 PM PDT by BobL
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That’s interesting.

I never heard of any of it.

More recently, they hid that the Pulse shooter was an Islamic attack for entire year.

They peddled it being an anti homo attack despite hearing the muslim death chant live that night.

They hid it until the audio was released 12 months later.


14 posted on 06/19/2024 10:45:35 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: flamberge

cut the cable tv


15 posted on 06/19/2024 11:59:45 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: CFW

The Free Press dies when it sepresses itself.


16 posted on 06/20/2024 12:54:20 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: CFW

Thank you!


17 posted on 06/20/2024 4:47:41 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Freest Republican

We didn’t have FR back then, so it was very hard to be aware. Like most here, probably, I watched network news back then - NOT A PEEP. Just that one small paragraph every day that summer, don’t even know why they bothered with it.


18 posted on 06/20/2024 5:18:47 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

An old time journalist, whose name escapes me now, once observed that “the greatest power of the media is the power to ignore.”. And the media certainly operates on this principle, that “if we don’t cover it, it didn’t happen.”


19 posted on 06/20/2024 6:20:09 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: BobL

putting them on busses. I wasnt to much into politics at the time, but I lived in Wichita, and a former friends wife worked at the clinic.


20 posted on 06/20/2024 7:26:13 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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