Get used to an unfiltered stream of crap being shoved under
your noses and being called journalism. Starting with Fox 5’s deceptive
segment on the universal background check initiative that we castigated at
length, local TV news is picking up their stories on the issue. Granted, it’s
sure to be a hot topic in the 2016 election, but why is it cropping up so
suspiciously? Fox 5 one week, NBC 3 the next week, along with the Las Vegas Sun
vomiting up some different articles, one praising
the Moms who support gun control, another trashing
states with such ‘liberal’ gun control laws like ours.[1]
The supporters, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
Everytown for Gun Safety (which does nothing to promote actual gun safety, such
as teaching people how not to accidentally shoot themselves) are pumping out
media releases and contacting local media to run stories favorable to their
perspective. Using their allies in the leftist infected media world, they can
present their agenda as objective ‘news.’
I have a beef with anti-gunners, obviously, but they would
be nothing more than another voice in the debate if the reporters, again mostly
local TV reporters, did their job. I am incensed with them for either being too
stupid realize their being played by the anti-gunners or willingly supporting
this assault on our private property and Second Amendment rights. It’s not hard
to see why the more paranoid think the media is in leagues with the anti-gun
lobby.
The anti-gunners can’t win on facts or admit that they want
to create a gun registry and eventually ban guns. Reality and popular opinion
is against them, so only through lies and manipulation can they win. It’s why
they picked our state. Just like Washington and Oregon before us, Nevada is
a ‘purple’ state where a large percentage of the population tends to vote
Democratic. Their reasoning is that if they tell the same lies enough times, in
a frightening enough matter, and use money and influence to peddle ads and news
stories in their favor, they can scare or fool enough people to vote away their
rights.
Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition,
which opposes the background check initiative, found a
piece of propaganda from Everytown that lays out all of the anti-gun
assertions made by the so-called ‘journalists.’ Talking points and ‘suggestions’
to cover stories have been disseminated by Bloomberg affiliated groups before
in Nevada and in other states. If one looks back through the various media
statements and opinion pieces in Nevada media, the same phrases and tortured
statistics all start to sound the same. They have a common source.
We can't allow 'truths' to be created and facts diluted by
partisan groups who present their biased views as an impartial reality. We are
in an age dominated by media that plays to what it perceives as the public
good, based upon their own interpretation of what the public good is, as if we were children and they our
parents. Too many people stupidly trust the media (like the government) to be
in their best interest and will make their decisions on these reports.
Half-assed reporting is part of the problem. I’m not sure
what the qualifications for a TV reporter are exactly any more. I haven’t seen
very many reports worthy of being called journalism. Rather than do research
and spend time thinking hard about a topic, it’s easier just to cut and paste
talking points from a media release, which is obviously what the guilty parties
did here (see above).
What happened to investigative reporting? Where are the deep
in the weed searches for new stories? The LVCCLD library
open carry issue has potential to explode into major protests and even a
lawsuit—something sure to capture national attention—yet only the LVRJ has
shown any interest, mainly because we ran into a reporter. No one other than
this blog has been interested in covering the issue (and we admit our bias).
Sadly, the only journalistic outlet of any size in Nevada that seems to have
any true investigative interest left is the LVRJ.
On background checks, the LVRJ has come out against the
issue several times in their opinion pages. John C. Smith isn't a big fan of
gun rights, but he's a columnist. I'd say more of their articles have exposed
the initiative as the farce it is. While
they commentators' opinions have varied, they have correctly pointed out the
pros and cons of both sides. Our last bastion of mainstream true journalism
isn't parroting Everytown's lies and actually takes the time to provide more
than just a superficial dig into the issue all while pushing an agenda. It
would be great if people still read the paper with the regularity they did in
years past.
Besides the obvious liberal bias in media, fueled perhaps by
reporters who attended liberal-dominated colleges and journalist programs, what
dark evil fuels this near universal narrative? What could they possibly have to
gain? Only tin foil hat wear creeps would imagine the various network
executives, new directors, and local station franchisees gathering together to
discuss world domination. Is there a diversity of opinion in journalism? Surely
they all can't have the same ideas on everything.
You can’t trust the mainstream media to accurately inform you
about much. News reports should be limited to a call that causes us to say “I’m
going to look into that” rather than trust what that made-up face under klieg
lights is saying. Get used to a stream of utter bullshit coming from the TV in
2016. Learn
the truth now and spread it. Your family, friends, and co-workers trust you
more than they trust an news anchor.
-G. C.
[1]
Sorry for the Vegas bias, your editor lives down south.
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