How-hum, another wild week in the American news cycle.

In Nashville, a trans person killed six people – three 9-year-old children among them – at a private Christian school. Police identified the killer as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old born with female plumbing who later identified as a man. Named Audrey by her parents, she wanted to be called Aiden.

Police said the killer was under psychiatric care and had targeted the Christian school in a manifesto of some kind.

There’s a lot to journalistically unpack in that case.

I can’t remember another female mass killer. So, there’s that to explore. And, a deeper dive into the transition from Audrey to Aiden is another important line of inquiry. Did hormone treatment play any part in Hale’s mental health treatment? Does that happen a lot with the transgender process? Again, there’s a lot more to know.

And finally – starry-eyed liberals might want to avert their eyes at this point – did Hale’s manifesto have anything to do with the rage transgender people have expressed across the nation with people in authority who uphold traditional gender values.

It’s a big story. So, what did the much-touted CBS do with it? Well, beyond the initial coverage of bullets and blood, it was to ban the use of “transgender” in their reporting.

I am not kidding you.

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

Wildly woke CBS execs twisted journalism in knots saying the ruling came because CBS News has not “confirmed” the shooter’s gender identity. “We should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime.”

Seriously? Could you get more Orwellian?

Police from the get-go have, in fact, confirmed the shooter was transgender and that it had something to do with the targeting of the school. CBS “news” execs trying to wipe that out of the fact record are not only wrong, they do their listeners a huge disservice.

Meanwhile, the Nashville shooting investigation continues. Without CBS as a serious player.

GET TRUMP

As everyone in the free world knows, ex-president Donald Trump became the proverbial “ham sandwich” when he was indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan run by a D.A. who campaigned for office promising to “get” Trump.

Political persecution or justice? I don’t know because at this writing the indictment is under seal. Yet, since the news broke, 25% of our national news media are siding with Trump and 75% are siding against. Shameful, really.

Then came the Queen of Shame, Nancy Pelosi, who tipped her hand on her no-brainer brand of Trump disorder when she said:

“The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law, No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.”

As sixth-graders know, in America you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Not guilty until you can prove innocence.

It is true that no one is above the law. It is also true that there is equal protection under the law.

Stand by, dear readers. We’ll have a better fix which way this is going to fall in the coming days.

ONE MORE THING

– If common sense were lard, most people couldn’t grease the bottom of a pan.

– At my funeral, could someone dress in all black with a black umbrella and watch from a distance so my family might think I had something mysterious going on in my life.

– Nevadans never use a cell phone in the car. We have to keep our hands free for gestures.

Properly Subversive” is commentary written by Sherman R. Frederick, a Nevada Hall of Fame journalist and co-founder of Battle Born Media, a news organization dedicated to the preservation of community newspapers. You can reach him by email at shermfrederick@ gmail. com.