ABC 'Blotter' Blog Gives Early Platform to Gun Control Group
April 16th, 2007 5:06 PM
Update added at bottom of post.In a 2:30 p.m. posting, well before details about the weapons used in the tragic Virginia Tech shootings were available, ABC News's Brian Ross devoted a "Blotter" blog entry to a gun control advocate's talking points. Ross didn't make room for any gun rights advocates or find a critic to suggest the Brady Center was callously capitalizing on a tragedy to further…
WashPost Leaves Out That Gun/Suicide Study Funded by Anti-Gun Foundati
April 16th, 2007 11:27 AM
Update at bottom of page.Harvard researcher Matthew Miller released a study on April 10 that ties higher suicide rates with higher rates of firearm ownership. Six days later the Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam printed a five-paragraph brief in the paper's "Science Notebook" that cribbed heavily from the Harvard School of Public Health press release. Yet nowhere in his story was the fact that…
Post Columnist Insults D.C. Residents, Gun-Owners as 'Children
March 14th, 2007 1:20 PM
Thomas Sowell, are you reading? I've got a new chapter for your book "The Vision of the Anointed: Self Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy."Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy condescended to the great unwashed of the District of Columbia in his March 14 column as he dismissed the desire to exercise one's 2nd Amendment rights as lethal childishness. Milloy was reacting to a…
