The Media

[JediSoth]

I've read a lot of posts in here, most recently the "Interesting thing happened at work" thread, and it got me thinking.

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We have GOT to do something about the media. It is NOT the job of the media to tell us what they think is going to happen as a result of new laws. I don't give a rats rear end what any journalist thinks. Their job is to report the facts, not opine on every little thing they agree or disagree with. Quite frankly, who do they think they are that makes their opinions more valid than mine?

Somehow, we need to get a message to the media at large that we no longer care to hear their opinions. We just want to hear the facts. We want them to report the news, NOT tell us what to think.
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Sorry for the rant, I just tired of constantly being villified, just because I choose to exercise my second amendment rights. I carry a gun, therefore I am bad. If I choose to smear human excrement on the American Flag and call it art, the press will be the first ones to defend my freedom of expression. Well, I say carrying a handgun is not only a second amendment right, but it is also an expression of freedom covered under the first amendment.

JediSoth

 

[Moparmike]

"Sir, why do you advocate the use of and the carrying of firearms?"

"Because it is my right under the Second to be well armed, and I am expressing my distrust of the goverment and fellow man which is protected under the First. I also use the firearm to protect my 1st Amendment rights."

It might go something like that. But that is sinking to the Liberal use of BS, and applying it with a tanker truck of it. They like to spout a lot of BS when it makes their argument sound good. Please dont get me wrong, the 2nd is used to protect all rights, but when we start having to sink to gibbering like liberals to do it, then we have defiled ourselves, as well as our argument. Logic alone will explain our case, without the BS.

[tarantino]
"This here is Mr. 45, who is protecting my righteous a$$ in the valley of darkness"
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[foghornl]

Anytime I see anything blatantly stupid, left-biased, or just plain wrong, I always call out the reporter on it. I ask for sources of data or names of quoted persons, and did they independantly verify themselves.

No reply or negative reply gets a follow-up e-mail/call, etc, asking if they know the meaning of "Yellow Journalism".

 

[Alan Smithiee]

"Mr Reporter, how long have you believed that criminals will obey the law?"

they never seem to have an answer to that one.

 

[NewsShooter]

Not all journalists are anti-gun. I know many who own, and carry.
That includes me.
As a journalist I do encourage folks to call any journalist on any subject that they report incorrectly.
A huge part of the problem is deadlines and ratings. The sexier it sounds the more it'll sell. Where I work their are many of us who own and carry.

 

[BerettaNut92]

"I blame the media blamers" --Dale Gribble

 

[critter]

Those journalists(?) who insist on foisting their views and opinions on us are doing so because they are 'elitist' and do so look down upon all those others of us who are poor, uneducated, ignorent peons who don't have enough sense to have an opinion! They really do think they are 'somebody' who has the duty to 'mould' all of us unenlightened until we are like them. Their arrogance has no limits!

BTW, the disease of 'elitism' and 'arrogance' also afflicts far too many of our politicos! The disease is also harder to cure than AIDS and spreads much more rapidly-especially right after elections.

 

[cuchulainn]

Yeah, those guys who ran the Federalist Papers in their newspapers were way out of line .... bunch of elitists foisting their opinions on the masses. Why they used to tie people down and FORCE them to read their opinions

The idea of an unopinionated media is a late 19th Century delusion, probably due to the then-fashionable idea of being a "detached scientist." No one expected a lack of bias before then, and only the naive have expected it since. I'd rather have an openly biased media than what we had 1880s-1990s -- a biased media that attempted to fool people into believing they were "just the facts" type of people.

It is NOT the job of the media to tell us what they think is going to happen as a result of new laws ... Their job is to report the facts, not opine on every little thing they agree or disagree with.

With all due respect and : Sez who? If you don't like it, turn it off, but their "job" is whatever they or their bosses want it to be.

Quite frankly, who do they think they are that makes their opinions more valid than mine?

How do you get that? The fact that they express their opinion doesn't mean they think yours are less valid?

Then again, the very nature of an "opinion" leads the opiner to believe other views are less valid than his -- that's why it's an opinion.

I just tired of constantly being villified, just because I choose to exercise my second amendment rights.

Yeah, me too, but I don't expect people to stop expressing opinions -- even those who lie to me and tell me they aren't expressing opinions, but just reporting the "fact" that "10 children a day die from gunshots."

 

[Henry Bowman]

Forget about trying to make the media neutral. Work to inform the public that the media is not neutral and to open their eyes to alternate sources of information. Generally, they will resist because this is asking them to think.

 

[NukemJim]

When I talk to people about the media and it's lies about firearms and gun violence I like to ask people the following

Have you ever seen a television news story on anything that you have 1st hand personal knowledge of, a car accident you were in, a fire, anything.

Most people will respond "Yes"

I then ask them how well did they tell an accurate and complete story.

The answers have always been the very similar " terrible" " Lousy" "Not at all accurate" etc...

I smile then

I then ask them how did they find out what they know about firearms, crime rates and CCW ?

The usual response " Television"

I smile again

I do not know for sure if it helpls but I do try.

NukemJim

 

[Standing Wolf]

My television continues to keep valuable shelf space in the garage from going to waste.

 

[fallingblock]

Jeepers! Standing Wolf....

Take that freeloading, shelf-stealing beast out back and shoot it

You'll feel better and it won't have to entertain the vain hope that T.V. broadcasting will ever improve

I did a mercy-killing on my T.V. in 1985 and have never regretted it.

That's just plain cruel to let that set hope against hope