When we read CNSNews.com managing editor Michael Chapman’s June 2 article rehashing a right-wing psychiatrist’s claim that “transgenderism is a ‘mental disorder’ that merits treatment,” we thought it looked a little familiar. Turns out we were right.
Last August, we caught Chapman devoting an article to “a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal” by “Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry,” even though the article had been published a full two months earlier and had ceased being news, if it ever was (except by CNS standards, anyway). We noted that Chapman made no effort to mention the many mental health professionals who disagree with McHugh’s claims.
Then we clicked on the link we provided for that August article — and discovered it pulls up the June 2 article. All Chapman did is slap a new date on his discredited 10-month-old piece to pretend that it’s relevant with the coming out of Caitlyn Jenner.
We already know Chapman is lazy enough to consider serving as stenographer for right-wing evangelist Franklin Graham a legitimate journalistic endeavor. But Chapman, it appears, is such a lazy journalist that he must recycle his hate and can’t be bothered to lift a finger to do any reporting to update to current events.
And this man is the managing editor of a “news” organization?