[pignock]

I just looked up the biographies of all the local television personalities that are available on the local station websites. The three local stations for central Illinois listed the bios of about 25 news, weather, and sports reporters and anchors. Of those 25 bios, not one mentioned a sport, hobby, or activity that involved firearms.

I remember reading something about a shooting club that held an annual event where local media people could come and try out different shooting sports and meet people involved in shooting. I think this area desperately needs something like that.

Anyone have any experience with this?

TIA

Keith

[Standing Wolf]

I gave away my television a couple months ago. I hadn't turned it on in years.

[Chipperman]

Even if some of them are shooters, it's probably tantamount to professional suicide for a Talking Head to publicly espouse shooting as a hobby. :banghead:

[Mike Irwin]

Well, given the fact that I primarily watch The History Channel, I'd have to say quite a few of them...

But most of them are actually using their firearms in WW I, II, Korea, or Vietnam...

Violent lot, my friends...

[Bob F.]

Local TV weatherman that I aboslutely can't stand is a former world fast draw champ several times over and the old fart is still fast. He's about 200 yrs old. Stan Sweet's his name.

[Justin]

Voicing that you're into guns is pretty much tantamount to career suicide no matter where you work, television station or not. Too many people have had misconceptions about gun-owners shoved down their throats.

That said, I've taken a few people from work to the range, including a couple of reporters.

:D

[Tommy.Gun]

Diana Lewis of WXYZ Detroit, she supports the kids for chemo shoot at the Birmingham gung club, MI...her husband is a member trap shooter..

[Mike Irwin]

"Voicing that you're into guns is pretty much tantamount to career suicide no matter where you work, television station or not."

Oh?

I was associate editor of American Rifleman magazine for 3.5 years back in the early to mid 1990s.

Somehow I think that NOT voicing that I was into guns would have been career suicide...

Where I am now I regularly taked guns with the number 2 guy in the group until he retired.

[glockten]

Bill Hall, a weatherman at WSMV in Nashville, is a hunter and shooter. Even has his own outdoors show.

[boing]

Something about weathermen... :scrutiny:

Local one does little outdoorsy snippets, including hunting. Bob Caldwell, I think. I dunno, I don't get my weather from people.

[45King]

Chipperman wrote:Even if some of them are shooters, it's probably tantamount to professional suicide for a Talking Head to publicly espouse shooting as a hobby.

Not necessarily. One of the local network affiliates here has at least one female reporter who has a CCW. She did a report about CCW a couple of years ago, including interviews with the owners of a local range and footage of various people shooting. It didn't get edited to be a hack job, either. After the filming was done, she took a little range time and got in a bit of practice.

[greyhound]

her husband is a member trap shooter..

No real evidence other than lots of conversations with leftists, but there's usually a double standard:

stuff like hunting and trap shooting is OK (even if they can't understand why anyone would want to), but guns and self-defense is what turns 'em into raving lunatics....

[peashooter]

Bill Hall is not the only Media person in Nashville involved in shooting sports.
I work at a station in Nashville (Fox) and there are more than a few that shoot and carry. Myself included.