Gun Control & RKBA

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts) Sat Jun 4, 2016, 06:45 PM Jun 2016

What Katie Couric did isn't bias or selective editing. It is a crime against journalism.

In a free society, there is no room for journalistic malfeasance. No matter what side of any issue you are on, allowing a journalist to cheat and lie in order to shape public opinion according to their personal agenda is a grave danger to the freedoms we enjoy. Even if you are pro-gun control, as a liberal and a Democrat you should be OUTRAGED at this type of behavior.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/katie-couric-cooks-the-facts-burns-her-reputation/article/2592541?custom_click=rss

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What Katie Couric did isn't bias or selective editing. It is a crime against journalism. (Original Post) Puha Ekapi Jun 2016 OP

I don't want to mix it up here but the Washington Examiner wouldn't be my go-to source on media bias Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2016 #1

This has been widely reported... virginia mountainman Jun 2016 #2

I don't have a "go to" news source, gejohnston Jun 2016 #3

I think that part of the problem TeddyR Jun 2016 #4

The problem is MSM's agitprop function for gun bans/controls... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #7

Normally most of us here would accept bias, but in this case they're stepping on the 2A. ileus Jun 2016 #5

"It is a crime against journalism." pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #6

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

1. I don't want to mix it up here but the Washington Examiner wouldn't be my go-to source on media bias

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Original post)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:01 PM

Jun 2016

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)

2. This has been widely reported...

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:14 PM

Jun 2016

The Washington examiner, DID break it, but this has been all over, including NPR, and Huff Po..

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)

3. I don't have a "go to" news source,

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:27 PM

Jun 2016

True, the Examiner is biased. So is NPR, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC. Every media outlet is biased. The difference between the media in the UK and here is that there they are honest about it.

TeddyR

(2,493 posts)

4. I think that part of the problem

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:27 PM

Jun 2016

Is that the likes of CNN, MSNBC and others are ignoring this story, so hard to cite them as a source.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

7. The problem is MSM's agitprop function for gun bans/controls...

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:32 PM

Jun 2016

If there is a bow-up in journalistic ethics, gross reporting errors, poor scholastic work, etc., which is detrimental to the gun control "cause," one must go to whatever source may be available in order to find out more, or to find out about it at all. MSM is all-in for gun control, and has been for nearly two generations. In general, MSM covers its ass en masse when it deals with gun bans.

ileus

(15,396 posts)

5. Normally most of us here would accept bias, but in this case they're stepping on the 2A.

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Original post)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 07:31 PM

Jun 2016

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)

6. "It is a crime against journalism."

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Original post)

Sun Jun 5, 2016, 01:32 AM

Jun 2016

Undeniable -- and pathetic in the extreme.

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