The media corridor screens preserve telling us that the Bari Weiss-run CBS Night Information is “MAGA-coded”. It isn’t, however that is the way in which they sign vice amongst themselves. The truth accommodates rather more than meets the attention. Living proof, the Night Information’ blatant omission of recent particulars within the Pawtucket mass capturing.
The brand new particulars, particularly, are that the shooter was transgender, which casts Pawtucket as the newest in a string of trans-fueled mass shootings. CBS omitted the story in its entirety. As an alternative, they ran the beginning of the trial of the Georgia faculty shooter’s father.
One of the best reporting out of Pawtucket got here through NBC Nightly Information, which reported probably the most salient particulars of that capturing and of the shooter’s identification. Right here is that report in its entirety, as aired on February seventeenth, 2026:
WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews are the one ones to report the salient, related particulars of the Pawtucket shooter, mentioning the “gender reassignment surgical procedure, narcissistic and character dysfunction traits” within the divorce that was later swapped out for “irreconcilable variations”. pic.twitter.com/zllrXlvKuL
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 18, 2026
TOM LLAMAS: We’ve new particulars tonight about how that lethal capturing at a highschool hockey sport in Rhode Island got here to an finish. Authorities praising these heroes who took the shooter down. Emilie Ikeda studies tonight from Rhode Island.
EMILIE IKEDA: Tonight video of the lethal capturing at a highschool hockey sport in Rhode Island displaying gamers dashing off the ice (VIDEO SWIPE) and this important angle capturing the moments because it unfolded. You may see an individual placing somebody who seems to be the suspected shooter in a chokehold.
DONALD GREBIEN: Their braveness undoubtedly prevented additional loss and damage and we thank them for that.
IKEDA: Police say 56-year-old Robert Dorgan, who additionally glided by Roberta, shot and killed ex-wife Ronda Dorgan and son Aidan within the stands earlier than pulling out a second gun and dying by suicide. One the suspect’s daughters talking to NBC affiliate WJAR.
AMANDA: His entire maturity he struggled with psychological well being points. However when someone does not wish to get assist, they will not.
IKEDA: Court docket paperwork present Ronda Dorgan filed for divorce from Robert in 2020, citing “gender reassignment surgical procedure, narcissistic and character dysfunction traits”, which was crossed out and changed with “irreconcilable variations”. Hours after witnessing her family members get shot, Amanda writing on GoFundMe, “our household has been ceaselessly modified”. Including her youthful siblings, together with one enjoying in yesterday’s sport “at the moment are going through the longer term with out their mother and father and older brother.” Groups seen returning to the sector to gather gear a day after the capturing.
PLAYER: I used to be on the ice and I assumed it was balloons at first.
IKEDA: Whereas individuals in the neighborhood confirmed their help putting hockey sticks on doorsteps and out of doors the sector.
Police don’t assume there was a confrontation proper earlier than the capturing that critically injured three individuals recognized because the ex-wife’s mother and father and a household pal. Tom.
LLAMAS: All proper, Emilie, we thanks.
NBC didn’t shrink back from mentioning that the shooter was transgender, had gone by an unspecified surgical course of, and had offered with behavioral considerations. They didn’t bury that lede, as did ABC’s World Information Tonight, which very softly waited till the top to take care of the fullness of the shooter’s identification. Under is that report as aired on Tuesday, February seventeenth, 2026 (click on “develop” to view transcript):
DAVID MUIR: We flip now to the horror at that ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Chilling new video tonight displaying the second these first pictures have been fired. Gamers on the ice and followers racing for canopy. Authorities tonight now say it was a person who killed his ex-wife and grownup son and critically wounded two members of his household. Right here’s Stephanie Ramos.
STEPHANIE RAMOS: Tonight, authorities in Pawtucket, Rhode Island say this video is proof of a focused assault. And the suspect who opened hearth at this youth hockey sport, 56-year-old Robert Dorgan, killed members of his family.
TINA GONCALVES: One of many victims is his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, and in addition his son. Grownup son Aidan Dorgan.
RAMOS: They are saying Dorgan additionally shot and wounded two different relations who have been within the stands. Police taking a look at this video that seems to point out a person in a white hat pulling a gun, transferring by the gang, then a wrestle and one other man seems to seize the suspect. Authorities crediting these courageous bystanders who grabbed Dorgan, stopping extra bloodshed. One among them, Michael Black, telling Boston’s station WCVB when he realized what was taking place, he informed his spouse to run.
MICHAEL BLACK: I stood on the bleachers and I noticed the gun, and simply , simply grabbed — went for the gun. And I acquired my hand caught. He was attempting to drag the set off and could not hearth it.
GONCALVES: At the moment, the suspect did attain for a second firearm and he did inflict a self-inflicted gunshot wound which what he succumbed to on scene.
RAMOS: After the capturing, a girl seen leaving the Pawtucket police station, telling our Boston affiliate WCVB she’s the suspect’s daughter.
REPORTER: Any thought why he would have finished this?
DAUGHTER: He is sick. He’s very sick.
RAMOS: Authorities say Dorgan additionally goes by Roberta Esposito, and had attended video games up to now with none incidents. They’re nonetheless looking for a motive.
David, these two different relations who have been shot are nonetheless in important situation. David.
MUIR: Only a horrific story. Stephanie, thanks.
To their credit score, NBC and ABC each reported the shooter as being a person that additionally glided by a girl’s identify. Within the current previous, there would’ve been some ambiguity as to the way to proceed. Not this time, although.
This was slightly an excessive amount of to deal with for the brand new CBS, which appears to be reacting to the media corridor screens’ false and deceptive “MAGA-coded” moniker. Whereas there have been many substantive and welcome modifications, it’s clear that CBS isn’t even remotely right-wing. Any assertion on the contrary is nothing greater than disinformation in service of narrative.
