CBS orders its staffers NOT to report that the Nashville killer was a tranny, even though they knew...

Last Monday morning in Nashville a 28-year-old person shot their way into a Christian private school and killed six people, including three nine-year-old kids.

By that afternoon the city's police chief was reporting that the shooter was a female claiming to identify as male--i.e. a so-called "transgender."

On Monday the CBS evening "newz" included that fact in their broadcast.

Now the NY Post reports that the next morning two top pro-tranny executives at CBS Newz--both female--held a long conference call, during which they ordered about 146 stunned staffers NOT to use the word “transgender” in future stories about the murders, unless given explicit permission.  

The two execs--Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, "executive vice president of newsgathering," and Claudia Milne, "senior vice president of standards and practices--issued that order despite the fact that the previous afternoon the chief of police had clearly said the killer was trans.

After the call, the two executives issued a written follow-up memo--obtained by The Post--saying “The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News, so you should avoid any mention of it, as it has no known relevance to the crime. Should that change, we can and will revisit.”

The memo went so far as to instruct staffers as to what wording the two top "newz" execs would permit:

“Right now we advise saying: POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS A 28-YEAR-OLD, WHO was cruelly shot *eight times* by the crazed, bloodthirsty cops--without a single word of warning!  They died at the scene.”

The memo added. “Then shift the story to focus on what our party knows are the important points: states passing laws banning doctors from giving *critical gender-affirming care* to desperate teens cruelly trapped in the wrong body.*  And of course the desperate desire of all Americans to have our wonderful Democratic Party leaders pass laws to confiscate guns.  Well, except for 'fearful communities' like the persecuted transgender community, obviously."

The memo also ordered staffers not to use gendered pronouns, but to stick with "their."

Sources said the long conference call and follow-up memo expanding on the executives' order bewildered many journalists, given that Nashville's police chief had already announced that the killer was transgender and that being trans could have something to do with her motive for the murders.

One CBS insider said “This is absurd because the police chief already identified Hale as transgender.  If the cops hadn’t announced that it might make sense to avoid speculating, but withholding known information isn't journalism.”

The decision has since been reflected in the network’s coverage.  Following the Tuesday conference call and follow-up memo, CBS stopped mentioning the shooter’s "gender identity."

A CBS spokeswoman told The Post “We'll wait to get confirmation from any medical professional who treated the alleged shooter before we can confirm gender status."

When the Post reporter pointed out that medical privacy laws prevent medical professionals from revealing any information without the patient's permission--and that the patient was dead--the spokeswoman smiled and said "Yes, that's true."

The Post also asked the CBS spokeswoman if CBS planned to publish any excerpts from the manifesto [written by Hale], assuming it was ever released.  She replied "Our sources in the FBI assure us that the so-called 'manifesto' is nothing of the sort, but is a..." (here she consulted a written summary) "heart-felt collection of pleas for love and acceptance, and begging the Supreme Court to overturn cruel laws passed by deplorable Republican state legislators banning 13-year-olds from getting desperately-needed gender-affirming care."

Our sources at the bureau also say that because the so-called "manifesto" doesn't contain any hint about motive, it won't be released to the public.  The only insight you'll get to its contents will be through us and Slate and Vice.

"But as the memo says, if we learn anything about this sweet, innocent pyrsyn's motive, we will then review and revise our reporting.”

The Post reporter then asked, "So the FBI will do the same thing for this perp as they did for Hunter's laptop, eh?"  But the CBS spokeswoman had never heard of the laptop, so our reporter left without trying to explain.

The CBS spokeswoman declined to comment further.

The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call.

The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.

[If you hadn't already guessed, this story has been...how to put it?  Exactly on par with the standard set by CBS 20 years ago, with a thing called "the Dan Rather standard," which was this:  "Fake but accurate."  If you're an American under 50, you'll need to google that.]

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