The Chicago Tribune has never been, in the 25 years that I've been a subscriber, so heavily one-sided on the issue of the 2nd Amendment. If anything, they've always been fairly libertarian about it.
For the past month, it seems like they are on an anti-gun crusade.
What happened? Did New York mayor Michael Bloomberg buy the Chicago Tribune?
They had one pro-rights editorial, which I really appreciated, but everything else has been ultra-critical of the Heller ruling and the 2nd Amendment in general. It seems like anybody that writes an anti-gun letter to the editor gets it published.
But what's really weird is the "crime page" (page 3 of the Metro section). The number of reports of gun-related crimes has more than quadrupled in the past month. There are hundreds of crimes in Chicago every day, but the "gun crimes" get top billing nowadays. The Tribune is "managing" the news to influence public opinion... which is a defining characteristic of propaganda.
Someone with a knife or a hammer could go out and kill a dozen people in Chicago, but it wouldn't find room on the crime page... there are too many stories about some criminal with an illegal firearm killing another criminal or some innocent bystander.
When a newspaper focus on gun crimes to the exclusion of everything else, I can't trust them as honest journalists. The integrity of the Chicago Tribune has gone down the toilet.
Sorry... I'm ranting.
For the past month, it seems like they are on an anti-gun crusade.
What happened? Did New York mayor Michael Bloomberg buy the Chicago Tribune?
They had one pro-rights editorial, which I really appreciated, but everything else has been ultra-critical of the Heller ruling and the 2nd Amendment in general. It seems like anybody that writes an anti-gun letter to the editor gets it published.
But what's really weird is the "crime page" (page 3 of the Metro section). The number of reports of gun-related crimes has more than quadrupled in the past month. There are hundreds of crimes in Chicago every day, but the "gun crimes" get top billing nowadays. The Tribune is "managing" the news to influence public opinion... which is a defining characteristic of propaganda.
Someone with a knife or a hammer could go out and kill a dozen people in Chicago, but it wouldn't find room on the crime page... there are too many stories about some criminal with an illegal firearm killing another criminal or some innocent bystander.
When a newspaper focus on gun crimes to the exclusion of everything else, I can't trust them as honest journalists. The integrity of the Chicago Tribune has gone down the toilet.
Sorry... I'm ranting.