CNN Corrects Error on Number of School Shootings, Actually 80% LESS

I'll bet it was very painful for them not to be able to manipulate this story like they manipulate all the other gun stories.

Others happly report the large number

http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2014/6/10/school-shootings74andstillcounting.html

Aljazeera America is happily reporting the larger number. If you read down past the headline you get this:

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, which defines a school shooting as “assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings” that happen “inside a school building or on school or campus grounds,”

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Their front page just says 74 and counting. No agenda here, move along.

Fox 19 in Cincinnati also quoted the 74 number on their morning news.

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So we have another figure to debunk. How? I doesn't help that we know.

you mean those opposing our constitutional rights lied? imagine that....

One break down and analysis: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...nce-newtown-immediately-debunked/#more-323747

No one is required to be truthful in relating how much firearms are destroying our schools, ok? Do whatever it takes to get the message across, the ends justifies the means.

This also goes to the use of the term "mass" as we have seen it used recently. I'm certainly not going to attempt a numerical definition, but the media seems to think it's as low as three. They have even used it in articles with only one victim and the shooter as the casualties. That's two.

So, given the current misuse of terms, expect the media to call any discharge of a firearm within 1000 yards a "mass school shooting." It's really no different than the antigunners calling a bunch of gangsta twenty somethings in a gun fight "children," and add their body count to the total number killed. The ends justifies the means - which means they will lie thru their teeth to force their goal on us.

I wouldn't worry too much about "getting the word out" in an correction - frankly, a lot of people don't much believe what the mainstream press says, and those who repeat it are either naive or biased themself. Your best action is to be polite and retort that the number is highly distorted, they shouldn't trust the press.

Well, at least they didn't invite on anyone to speculate causality between school shootings and.black holes, or the Bermuda triangle.

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Bloomberg's anti-gun group lied to make guns look bad. Somehow that's not great news.

wow we congratulate the liberal media for correcting their errors in reporting once they realized that they couldnt continue their lie?

"This also goes to the use of the term "mass" as we have seen it used recently. I'm certainly not going to attempt a numerical definition, but the media seems to think it's as low as three. They have even used it in articles with only one victim and the shooter as the casualties. That's two. "

quoted from Tirod.

I was wondering also if there was a way to quantify the term "mass".

When I think of mass killing, Stalin pops in my head.

Just a guess but I'm going to say that the correction doesn't matter much since most antis will not see CNN's correction or they'll just disregard it and keep regurgitating the erroneous "fact".
Although I hope my guess is wrong.

The damage is already done. No "on-the-fence or anti" will ever hear the corrected statistic. I guarantee it won't get as much of a headline as the original number.

I'd be more impressed if they got it right in the first place.

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If you haven't noticed, fact checking and editing is essentially a thing of the past with regards to CNN.

We may may consider it to be manipulative bias (and a lot of it is), but it's also a reflection of the declining condition of traditional media as a whole. They just don't have the budgets they once had to staff their organizations with facts-checkers and editors anymore.

The state of newspapers is even worse.

The attacks on CNN have begun. HuffPo has already dragged out a graving father of an off-campus gang-related stray bullet victim on his way home from school who says "how dare they not count my son".

In other words, pure emotion over logic.

Mike

The first day I heard that bogus stat I started looking into it. It was apparent when I cross referenced just the first three cases that the group was padding their numbers. I looked up all 74 and found incidents of firearms discharges supposedly on campuses. I found a case where two robbery suspects were apprehended on school grounds, a student who graduated years before went back to school and killed himself on school grounds at 1 am, a person appeared to have been murdered elsewhere and dumped on school grounds and my personal favorite, a student who used a firearm to defend himself against two others who were beating him. I only included some of the most glaring. There were many others and it became quite apparent what they were doing. Information is getting out. I do think this was a black eye to the news networks and Everytown. At the very least, they will tread lightly when dealing with that group again.

Fishbed77 said:

If you haven't noticed, fact checking and editing is essentially a thing of the past with regards to CNN.

We may may consider it to be manipulative bias (and a lot of it is), but it's also a reflection of the declining condition of traditional media as a whole. They just don't have the budgets they once had to staff their organizations with facts-checkers and editors anymore.

The state of newspapers is even worse.

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^^ This is very true. It also seems that media "professionals" forgot that reporters don't change the world, they report the changes in it.

Bezoar said:

wow we congratulate the liberal media for correcting their errors in reporting once they realized that they couldnt continue their lie?

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Actually I first saw the 74 number in the CNN article. Its not like they let it float out there for a week, got blasted, and retracted it. They addressed it almost immediately.

Worse, President Obama repeated it.

Caught it "out of the corner of my ear" on the news last night just before I hit the channel up-button on the remote, then could not get back to it on time. I know I said, "Say,what?" after the ten seconds it took for the number to sink into my mind.

Gee, you'd think the White House could afford a staff of fact-checkers, wouldn't you?

Terry, 230RN

230RN said:

Worse, President Obama repeated it. Caught it "out of the corner of my ear" on the news last night just before I hit the channel up-button on the remote, then could not get back to it on time. I know I said, "Say,what?" after the number sunk into my mind.

Gee, you'd think the White House could afford a staff of fact-checkers, wouldn't you?

Terry, 230RN

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Not surprising, given the first of anything Obama hears is from the news. Or so he says.