{"id":4926,"date":"2023-08-24T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:09:41","slug":"columbia-journalism-review-smears-cowboy-state-daily-as-dehumanizing-for-accurate-pronoun-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/columbia-journalism-review-smears-cowboy-state-daily-as-dehumanizing-for-accurate-pronoun-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Journalism Review Smears Cowboy State Daily As \u2018Dehumanizing\u2019 For Accurate Pronoun Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cowboy State Daily is a Wyoming news site I usually check daily, and they have some good coverage which I’ve posted. The major newspapers are propaganda rags owned by a billionaire family, Adams Publishing Group<\/a>, out of Minnesota. Mark Adams who started Adams Publishing Group is the son of Stephen Adams who is a member of the OCGFC Skull and Bones at Yale<\/a>. Worth noting that Cowboy State Daily is a new publication, and the main editor has a connection to another Skull and Bones member, George W. Bush. And the fact he worked for the cult publication the Christian Science Monitor is suspect as well. Is it controlled opposition? Possibly. Judge each reporter and piece on their own merits. But you have to love them bucking this pronoun rooz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/22\/columbia-journalism-review-smears-cowboy-state-daily-as-dehumanizing-for-accurate-pronoun-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Tristan Justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refusal to follow the corporate media\u2019s bow to transgenderism has earned the Cowboy State Daily a 2,600-word reprimand by the Columbia Journalism Review(CJR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the bi-annual publication sponsored by Columbia University published an article<\/a> that vilified one of Wyoming\u2019s largest publications, the Cowboy State Daily, as an engine of right-wing propaganda. The State Daily\u2019s crime? The website\u2019s use of biological pronouns contradictory to the far-left\u2019s orthodoxy on transgender coverage, which, according to the university paper, is an exercise in \u201cdehumanizing\u201d discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CJR relied on claims from far-left activists to make the defamatory accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCowboy State Daily<\/em> has been criticized by LGBTQ rights organization Wyoming Equality for deadnaming and using phrases like \u2018biological males\/females\u2019 to refer to trans people,\u201d CJR reported. \u201cOne Cowboy State Daily<\/em> columnist wrote they \u2018draw the line\u2019 when someone \u201cborn with male genitalia and a masculine endocrine system tries to impose himself in a women\u2019s [sic] world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CJR continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our analysis also found numerous instances where Cowboy State Daily reporting on trans communities used tropes the Trans Journalists Association\u2019s style guide says perpetuate \u201charmful cliches and stereotypes.\u201d These included \u201cgroom\u201d (seventeen articles), \u201cdetransition\u201d (seven), and \u201cbiological male\/female\u201d (forty).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The university publication went on to blame an episode of domestic terrorism on the State Daily\u2019s <\/em>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\u2019s coverage of transgenderism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To Burlingame the writing has been alarming\u2014\u201dwhere they deadname trans people, where they out trans people and students\u2026where they use phrases like \u2018he is an intact male.’\u201d This is not only \u201cprofoundly dehumanizing,\u201d but relies on tropes for \u201ctalking about livestock,\u201d she said. Burlingame is concerned this rhetoric might spill over into political violence. (In fact, in May 2022, a gender treatment and abortion clinic was torched with gasoline by an arsonist.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A search for links between attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and abortionist commentary turns up empty<\/a> in the CJR\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Supreme Court struck down the 1973 precedent in Roe v. Wade<\/em> last summer, pro-life pregnancy centers became the targets of widespread firebombings around the country. Rather than crack down on the far-left anarchists terrorizing facilities that offer support<\/a> for pregnancy, the FBI went on to arrest<\/a> pro-life demonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York-based magazine\u2019s condemnation of a mountain state paper\u2019s coverage surrounding transgenderism is another case study in elite arrogance that demands conformity with industry standards set by east coast activists. From compliance with transgender pronouns to the regurgitation of climate change hysteria, independent media that refuses the rules imposed by far-left elites often becomes the primary target of corporate boycotts or, in other cases, the censorship industrial complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to The Federalist, Cowboy State Daily Executive Editor Jimmy Orr said the paper launched in 2019 has so far escaped boycotts and cancellation threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerhaps it\u2019s because Wyoming is such a reasonable place, and people here don\u2019t subscribe to the same notions as found in liberal, coastal communities,\u201d Orr said. \u201cIt\u2019s also why the CJR story is so out of touch. People in Wyoming have flocked to the Cowboy State Daily, while the CJR objects to it. If CJR wasn\u2019t an organ of liberal, journalistic orthodoxy, it would have praised Cowboy State Daily for its success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CJR highlighted Orr\u2019s history as the director of digital strategy in the second Bush administration. In a press release, the Cowboy State Daily filled gaps in Orr\u2019s resume left out of the CJR hit piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCJR failed to inform its readers that Orr also worked as Managing Editor for the Los Angeles Times and was Online Editor at the Christian Science Monitor,\u201d the press release read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat CJR is really saying,\u201d Orr said in the release, \u201cis that if you\u2019re not a liberal publication and you don\u2019t echo the same stories that have made journalism decline everywhere, you\u2019re doing something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within four years, however, the Cowboy State Daily has eclipsed local legacy papers to become Wyoming\u2019s top publication. The State Daily has gathered more than 50,000 subscribers and leads in social media engagement, according to the paper\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release cited SimilarWeb, an online web traffic service, to show the State Daily had 1.6 million visitors last month, compared to rival sites WyoFile with 208,000 visits and the Casper Star-Tribune with 205,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cowboy State Daily is a Wyoming news site I usually check daily, and they have some good coverage which I’ve posted. The major newspapers are propaganda rags owned by a billionaire family, Adams Publishing Group, out of Minnesota. Mark Adams who started Adams Publishing Group is the son of Stephen Adams who is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}