{"id":41725,"date":"2021-04-01T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41725"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:23:36","slug":"the-media-is-telling-you-what-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41725","title":{"rendered":"The Media Is Telling You What To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article about the media reporting after a tragedy involving a gun.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Boulder, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows sinisterly depicted Republicans, conservatives and gun owners as a \u201cwall of opposition\u201d<\/a> and \u201cresistance\u201d to \u201ccommon sense\u201d gun control measures that would save lives.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In just four days (March 23 through March 26)<\/em> of coverage, the networks filled their morning show and evening programs with statements favoring gun control over gun rights by a ratio of roughly 14 to 1.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s become commonplace for the networks to quickly seize on a mass shooting to champion the Left\u2019s longstanding anti-gun agenda. After the December 2012 killings in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, NewsBusters found the networks slanted their coverage<\/a> 8-to-1 in favor of the gun control agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the wake of the 2016 mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, the spin was an equally-lopsided 8-to-1.<\/a> TV coverage of the killings in Las Vegas in 2017 was slanted five-to-one<\/a> against gun rights, while in the wake of the February 2018 shootings at Parkland High School the networks tilted 11-to-1<\/a> in favor of anti-gun activists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And after the 2019 shootings in El Paso, Texas, the networks tilted an even more lopsided 17-to-1<\/a> to the Left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article summarizes the numbers:<\/p>\n

MRC analysts reviewed all statements that took a position on overall gun policy by anchors, reporters, guests and soundbites, beginning with the morning of March 23<\/em> (the morning after the Boulder shooting) through the morning of March 26<\/em>, and found time spent arguing in favor of more gun control (36 minutes, 11 seconds) <\/em>overwhelmed time devoted to supporting gun rights (2 minutes and 31 seconds.) <\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How are Americans supposed to get a fair picture of any issue when our media is so lopsided? This is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

None of the laws currently proposed by Democrats in Congress to ‘save lives’ would have been relevant in most of the shootings that have occurred in America in recent years. Limiting the rights of law-abiding gun owners does nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns and using them. Has it occurred to anyone in Congress that criminals do not follow laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Newsbusters posted an article about the media reporting after a tragedy involving a gun. The article reports: In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Boulder, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows sinisterly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13619,2182,11139,2673,2181],"class_list":["post-41725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boulder-colorado","tag-gun-laws","tag-media-coverage","tag-newsbusters","tag-the-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41727,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725\/revisions\/41727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}