The lamestream media told you:
Literally nothing.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Media Research Center’s latest analysis of network TV “news” finds that, for the first seven months of 2007, ABC, CBS and NBC ran 650 stories on homicides involving firearms. They balanced this with stories of guns saving people from crime — twice — for a ratio of 325 to one against the public.
Criminologists have repeatedly found that guns are used to prevent crimes far more often than to commit crimes. Of 13 scholarly studies on the issue, depending on time frames and the set of respondents asked, guns stop crime between 700,000 and 3.4 million times every year.
The networks’ distortion of truth on the subject is reprehensible, especially as public stewards of government-monopoly licenses to broadcast. They could not be reached for comment.
Efforts to have the Society of Professional Journalists address such ethical abuse have been fruitless — and I’ve been trying for years. My latest article on the matter was turned down as “too controversial.” Go figure.
In other news, MRC’s study revealed the networks give double the time to Democrat candidates and promote the liberal agenda. See the report, or add your name to the petition demanding equal time.
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