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Phaedra Fisher - Lift the Fog's avatar

Thank you, Ayn. Unfortunately, I have come to expect this level of propaganda from the San Francisco Chronicle. But can you help explain why the Wall Street Journal (previously a legitimate source of news) fails to identify the shooter's gender at all as either male, female, or any other definition? This is an impressive Orwellian example of a "news" article that says more by what it doesn't say.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/accused-canada-shooter-an-18-year-old-known-to-police-authorities-say-53fbcaf6?st=QsefQp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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I got to the word "person" before the paywall knocked me off. Oh "boy!"

Phaedra Fisher - Lift the Fog's avatar

Hmm looks like the same link as above. I am trying...

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Gotta hand it to the WSJ, though -- once you get past the Orwellian headline and the "person" in the opening line -- the let down their guard and did report some key details: "transgender," "multiple" police visits, for "mental health," and "firearms were seized from the home but later returned." But yes, even more left unsaid, tellingly: a little detail, please on the "mental health" calls and nature of the arms collection that was ... returned ... to this young man?