Yes.
"News" or entertainment, if they don't get the stuff I know about right, why should I think they get anything else right?
If I can see one thing is slanted, why should I think they are not slanting the rest?
Regrettably, if we're talking solely about network television "news" channels, the one channel claiming to be the voice of conservative Americans and the only media outlet that supports the RKBA, gets so many other stories wrong.
At this particular juncture in time, it's pretty clear that none of us Americans should depend solely on one media outlet to get
the truth.
Those that believe that a media resource must get every detail on every event and issue totally correct in order to be credible, do not understand how reporting "the news" has always worked in the modern era. And probably believe that Ben Franklin's
Pennsylvania Gazette never contained any slanted reporting...
In the early stages of OIF, I was with a unit had three "embedded" reporters (one very well-known) who were with us 24/7, asked great questions, saw what we were doing... and when we read the print stories or saw the network video, our reaction was mostly, "What the hell?" As far as the media is concerned, there is
always an agenda.
What I see now is that a lot of the folks on our side (RKBA supporters) simply cannot fathom why there isn't more pro-gun reporting, why the concept of "gun violence" has become so entrenched and stay clueless about why even those in high-crime areas are still so anti-gun and okay with being totally disarmed, prospective victims.
We are just not gonna change how the media reports on firearms and criminal violence involving firearms. That ship has sailed. Look where the current and new generations of journalists are coming from.
We need to take back the public schools, regain control over their curriculum, and (in the words of that anti-gun Canadian singer) teach our children well.
And for those that spot a letter to the editor or op-ed piece in their local newspaper -- or even
Newsweek or
Time -- spouting the rote anti-gun stupidity, if you're not responding with your own letters and e-mails, you're not helping.