{"id":58928,"date":"2016-05-26T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58928"},"modified":"2016-05-25T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:31:10","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-the-media-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58928","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always:  The Media And Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Couric&#8217;s &#8220;docoumentary&#8221; &#8220;about&#8221; &#8220;guns in America&#8221; has been busted engaging in misleading editing to try to embarass pro-Human-rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what appeared on Couric&#8217;s broadcast:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6_9q8K2VK8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to the<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric\u2019s question is met immediately with answers from the activists. A back and forth between a number of the league\u2019s members and Couric over the issue of background checks proceeds for more than four minutes after the original question is asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the raw audio:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/265742321&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first, most obvious lesson? If you&#8217;re a human rights advocate, and someone from the media actually deigns to speak with you, and they want to do it in recorded form &#8211; record the interview. You&#8217;ll have to do it surreptitiously &#8211; mainstream media people often demand to have complete control of the narrative. So record them anyway. You are more likely than not to bust them in a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because this category is called &#8220;Lie First, Lie Always&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Under the Gun<\/em> bills itself as a documentary that \u201cexamines the events and people who have kept the gun debate fierce and the progress slow, even as gun deaths and mass shootings continue to increase.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which they have not.<\/p>\n<p>But you knew that.<\/p>\n<p>The only surprise would have been had they\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>been caught lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Couric&#8217;s &#8220;docoumentary&#8221; &#8220;about&#8221; &#8220;guns in America&#8221; has been busted engaging in misleading editing to try to embarass pro-Human-rights activists. Here&#8217;s what appeared on Couric&#8217;s broadcast: However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to theWashington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric\u2019s question is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58929,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58928\/revisions\/58929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}