CJR Smears Cowboy State Daily As ‘Dehumanizing’ For Accurate Pronoun Use

[Kamaji]

Columbia Journalism Review Smears Cowboy State Daily As ‘Dehumanizing’ For Accurate Pronoun Use

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
AUGUST 22, 2023

Refusal to follow the corporate media’s bow to transgenderism has earned the Cowboy State Daily a 2,600-word reprimand by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).

Last week, the bi-annual publication sponsored by Columbia University published an article that vilified one of Wyoming’s largest publications, the Cowboy State Daily, as an engine of right-wing propaganda. The State Daily’s crime? The website’s use of biological pronouns contradictory to the far-left’s orthodoxy on transgender coverage, which, according to the university paper, is an exercise in “dehumanizing” discrimination.

CJR relied on claims from far-left activists to make the defamatory accusations.

“Cowboy State Daily has been criticized by LGBTQ rights organization Wyoming Equality for deadnaming and using phrases like ‘biological males/females’ to refer to trans people,” CJR reported. “One Cowboy State Daily columnist wrote they ‘draw the line’ when someone “born with male genitalia and a masculine endocrine system tries to impose himself in a women’s [sic] world.”

CJR continued.

Our analysis also found numerous instances where Cowboy State Daily reporting on trans communities used tropes the Trans Journalists Association’s style guide says perpetuate “harmful cliches and stereotypes.” These included “groom” (seventeen articles), “detransition” (seven), and “biological male/female” (forty).

The university publication went on to blame an episode of domestic terrorism on the State Daily’s reporting on transgender issues. Sara Burlingame, the executive director of Wyoming Equality and former Democratic state lawmaker, reportedly contacted the state paper to discuss the outlet’s coverage of transgenderism.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/22/columbia-journalism-review-smears-cowboy-state-daily-as-dehumanizing-for-accurate-pronoun-use/

[Kamaji]

Sounds like a really good reason to subscribe to CSD!

[the OlLine Rebel]

What’s harmful is these bastards and their enabling roll-over of thousands of years of common-sense undeniable science.

[mountaineer]

Could be worse. Just take a look at Australia:

Kirralie Smith
@KirralieS
Starting next week, I have four court appearances in a short space of time for "misgendering" males in female sport & identifying them on social media.  ...

https://twitter.com/KirralieS/status/1693750623018287543

[Kamaji]

Could be worse. Just take a look at Australia:

Kirralie Smith
@KirralieS
Starting next week, I have four court appearances in a short space of time for "misgendering" males in female sport & identifying them on social media.  ...

https://twitter.com/KirralieS/status/1693750623018287543

Yeah.  In many respects I very much like Australia and Australians, but they have been going hard-core left-fascist recently, and it's dispiriting.  I do not think I would move there any more if I suddenly acquired the wherewithal to live where I wished.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Who gives a damn about the Columbia Journalism Review?  Just more lining for bird cages and wrapping for fish.

[mountaineer]

When I became a newspaper reporter in 1998, my editor told me the AP Style Guide would be the "bible" for punctuation and various word usages. Now it's gone woke, too. When writing about a person's race, I understand, the reporter has to capitalize "Black," but not "white."

I don't know what it now says about pronouns for the mentally disturbed, a/k/a transgenders.

[PeteS in CA]

Has Cowboy State Daily told CJR to F-Off? That would be the most appropriate response.