{"id":74764,"date":"2020-07-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74764"},"modified":"2020-07-27T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:04:01","slug":"the-second-amendment-freedom-activists-eternal-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74764","title":{"rendered":"The Second Amendment Freedom Activist’s Eternal Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As David Harsanyi notes<\/a>, there is no issue save religion that the mainstream, especially “elite”, media, do a worse job of covering than guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At RealClearPolitics<\/em>, John Lott reports<\/a> that legacy media outlets often quite literally allow anti\u2013Second Amendment activists to write their news stories on gun policy. Politico<\/em> hasn\u2019t quite done that today, but . . . well, I\u2019m not sure having reporters dutifully repackaging Everytown USA press releases is any better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The whole thing is worth a read – not that it tells you anything you don’t know.\u00a0 \u00a0Even the best<\/del> better among Twin Cities newsrooms, NPR, has given anti-gun activists an unfettered, unedited and un-fact-checked voice<\/a> (although as we noted at that time, the bias’s roots were more likely financial than ideological).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The media does do a terrible job.\u00a0 Not for lack of effort on the part of gun-rights activists…<\/p>\n

…and not without some good results.\u00a0 \u00a0I’ve noticed, at least at the local level, that journos\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>– or at least\u00a0could –\u00a0<\/em>be taught.\u00a0 Over the years, there’ve been examples<\/a> of reporters that actually listened, and learned to write the whole story and tell the truth on the issue…<\/p>\n

…before moving on elsewhere and being replaced by a new wave of journos with the same set of superstitions their predecessors had slowly cut loose.\u00a0 \u00a0The whole new generation then needs to be slowly, painstakingly taught that “gun owner <> incipient mass murdering white supremacist”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s a job that, it seems, will never end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, any hint of departing from the narrative is weeded out at the local level – there is not a single national “journalist” outside overtly conservative media that can cover this issue fairly, or even accurately.\u00a0 \u00a0And Big Left runs a constant effort to groom reports to take Big Gun Control’s “facts” as fact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which, as Harsanyi notes, is all too successful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the way – if you\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>among the journos who reads this space, I’d be more than happy to take you to the range one of these days.\u00a0 Have your people call my people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As David Harsanyi notes, there is no issue save religion that the mainstream, especially “elite”, media, do a worse job of covering than guns. At RealClearPolitics, John Lott reports that legacy media outlets often quite literally allow anti\u2013Second Amendment activists to write their news stories on gun policy. Politico hasn\u2019t quite done that today, but . . . well, I\u2019m not sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74764","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=74764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74823,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74764\/revisions\/74823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}