The w word

More on the news media blatantly lying in the headline:

Ten dead, including female suspect, after Canada school shooting – as it happened

Yo. Suspect not female. Suspect male. Repeat, suspect male.

Summary

• Ten people died in a mass shooting in British Columbia
• It’s one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent Canadian history
• Six people were found dead at a high school in the town of Tumbler Ridge
• The suspected shooter, a woman, was among the dead at the school
• Two more were found dead elsewhere and another died en route to hospital

Item 4 in that list is a lie. The shooter was not a woman.

It’s nearing midnight in Tumbler Ridge, the town in British Columbia where six people were found dead – including the suspected female shooter – at a high school.

We’re winding down our live coverage for now, but here’s what we know and don’t know so far about one of Canada’s worst mass shootings in decades:

• Overall, 10 people died in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, a remote municipality with a population of around 2,400 people.
• Six bodies were found at the local high school, which has a student population of 160 students.
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled a trip abroad in response to the deaths.
• Authorities haven’t identified the woman who was the suspected shooter, nor any motive.

There was no woman who was the suspected shooter. There was only a man.

Are all these reporters and their editors just hugging themselves with glee at being able to pretend that women are the perpetrators of mass shootings by men? Is it totally the best fun they’ve ever had?