CBS News Censors the Word "transgender" for Nashville Shooting

Because God forbid that people should get the idea that the victim narrative isn't what they were told. CBS News bans word 'transgender' in reports on Nashville transgender school shooter | The Post Millennial

So was this an anti-Christian hate crime? Is that what they don't want to admit?

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.”

Now I am all for media outlets not rushing to judgement, and the stance on the gender identity of the shooter might have been valid for part of the first day, but at some point the truth comes out. Censorship - even self-censorship - is different from waiting until you have the facts.

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.”

But then CBS News is in the Propaganda Business, not the News Business.