Press Hypocrisy

[Pat-inCO]

Gee, I always thought "Press" and "Hypocrisy" were synonyms.

 

[R127]

Really?

Who established this,

Anybody with a working brain.

when did they do it,

Every day.

and what standard of judgment did they use to determine credibility?

Fact check any news article or report.

You don't have to write out an answer, a link to the scholarly source or other citation would be acceptable.

Because citing things that are incorrect is a good way to prove that something that is incorrect is actually correct???

In fact we have a perfect object lesson going for you right now.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=350285

 

[TCB in TN]

You speak of the media as a single entity, which couldn't be further from the truth. The press is not for or against guns. Authors may be, a particular news company may be, but saying that any a particular portrayal is hypocritical to the methods of "the press" is akin to saying that all gun owners are irresponsible rednecks, and those who aren't are hypocrites since (as we already established) all gun owners are irresponsible rednecks.

The only way this article can be considered hypocritical would be if the same author also editorialized about guns not being necessary for protection.

While you are correct and the "media" is made up of individuals, taken by and large it is a group of individuals, who according to the polls that I have seen, shown to be 90+% Democrat, and when reviewed by ANYONE with a brain it is obvious to see a huge amount of opinion passed off as fact. (The truth of that statement has been proved even by 6th graders reading newspaper articles to identify opinion stated as fact in news paper articles.)

 

[Leitmotif]

Tally up all the news reports you can find showing guns in a positive light. This should take about a minute. Then do the same with reports coming out against guns and gun owners. That should take you, oh, the rest of the day. At least.

Firearm enthusiasts can be demonstrated to be largely outside the irresponsible redneck stereotype. The same cannot be said of mass media. The few crumbs of good press seen by gun owners are statistically insignificant compared to the rampant anti-gun propaganda.

 

[Elm Creek Smith]

"Because of MS13, Charlie carries a revolver (yeah, I know you'd need more firepower)."

It depends on how many revolvers one carries.

[Never see a picture of a suburbanite with a revolver on his hip in a newspaper, though.]

If the picture was of me you'd never see the revolver(s) anyway.

ECS

 

[R127]

Really?

Who established this, when did they do it, and what standard of judgment did they use to determine credibility? You don't have to write out an answer, a link to the scholarly source or other citation would be acceptable.

Warrants are neither proof nor evidence, and only serve to mislead the less informed.

Here is yet another example posted to this very forum.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=350882