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Am I the only one who is absolutely sick of hearing the lies about guns in the media. I cant take anymore. I will no longer be able to discuss current events as I just cant listen to anymore of the media. Even a popular so called conservative tonight on Fox couldnt get it right. Guns are really the only issue I am really educated on and the lies and ignorance have become more than I can bear. There isnt ANYONE who gets it right. What about all the other issues that I know nothing about. Do you really think they are getting the facts on them right. I hardly think so. So I turn to the firearm shows like the ones on Wednesday night, and I get zombie shooting, and self defense. Dont get me wrong self defense is important but there are many other shooting sports that never get covered. We need something besides shooting someone sometimes. The N.R.A. show I recently watched was about two different guns a $6000 shotgun and an mp5 submachine gun. Yes it was interesting but I dont think that goes very far when trying to bring new shooters into our world. If you know who gets reelected and loads the supreme court, I guess none of it will matter in a few years anyway. O.K. I am done. Am I alone?
 
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shortrange said:
Am I the only one who is absolutely sick of hearing the lies about guns in the media. I cant take anymore. I will no longer be able to discuss current events as I just cant listen to anymore of the media. Even a popular so called conservative tonight on Fox couldnt get it right. Guns are really the only issue I am really educated on and the lies and ignorance have become more than I can bear. There isnt ANYONE who gets it right. What about all the other issues that I know nothing about. Do you really think they are getting the facts on them right. I hardly think so. So I turn to the firearm shows like the ones on Wednesday night, and I get zombie shooting, and self defense. Dont get me wrong self defense is important but there are many other shooting sports that never get covered. We need something besides shooting someone sometimes. The N.R.A. show I recently watched was about two different guns a $6000 shotgun and an mp5 submachine gun. Yes it was interesting but I dont think that goes very far when trying to bring new shooters into our world. If you know who gets reelected and loads the supreme court, I guess none of it will matter in a few years anyway. O.K. I am done. Am I alone?
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If you're talking about the same guy I am, I sent his producer an e-mail. He made many false statements about civilian ownership of machine guns(amongst other false statements), making it sound like anyone could go into any gun store and buy one like they would buy a loaf of bread.
 
I saw the same commentary you guys did and if it wasn't for the fact I saw it on the 11 pm showing and had to get to bed, I would have tried to find a way to contact him myself. He was pretty clueless about the whole matter. The misinformation out there is incredible.
 
shortrange said:
Am I the only one who is absolutely sick of hearing the lies about guns in the media. I cant take anymore. I will no longer be able to discuss current events as I just cant listen to anymore of the media. Even a popular so called conservative tonight on Fox couldnt get it right. Guns are really the only issue I am really educated on and the lies and ignorance have become more than I can bear. There isnt ANYONE who gets it right. What about all the other issues that I know nothing about. Do you really think they are getting the facts on them right. I hardly think so. So I turn to the firearm shows like the ones on Wednesday night, and I get zombie shooting, and self defense. Dont get me wrong self defense is important but there are many other shooting sports that never get covered. We need something besides shooting someone sometimes. The N.R.A. show I recently watched was about two different guns a $6000 shotgun and an mp5 submachine gun. Yes it was interesting but I dont think that goes very far when trying to bring new shooters into our world. If you know who gets reelected and loads the supreme court, I guess none of it will matter in a few years anyway. O.K. I am done. Am I alone?
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Couldn't agree more, all media is there to serve itself by trying to out-shock the others for viewers with lies.
Also, TV programs showing mostly the $$$$ unobtainable, does nothing for attracting new shooters.
 
You are not alone. I seldom read newspapers, partly for this reason, also because I don't care to support Godless communists. When I read fiction, the first thing I do is to turn to the inside back cover and read the author's bio. If there is no reason to believe that the author knows much about what he's writing about, I don't waste my time with that book. If this is the standard that I apply to overt fiction, which is only entertainment, why should I apply a less strict standard to the covert fiction that masquerades as news?
 
The role of commentator or news reader in media is to fill in the space between advertisements. It's that simple.

As for quality of information. It is the same if they are talking about guns, cars, space, computers, any technology. They have producers and researcher that oft times google information which gives folks the internet which, if they bump into good info...yeah, if they bump into a bad site...oops. It is why schools and colleges never allow Wikipedia as a resource. It is a self editing internet site...anyone can add or edit meaning anyone can insert poor information as fact.
 
the media simply reprocess the news in a tone which is in vogue today and delivers it to the gullible public who, in turn, take every word as truth.
 
This has been going on for years.
I worked as a reporter at a daily paper for a while. The Assocaied Press sent an article saying, "Hunters don't use handguns."
It was November and the deer hunter's report in our sports pages
included a guy who had taken a nice buck with a .44 Magnum handgun.

I pointed this out to the AP wire editor and suggested he change
it. He refused. The paper was in a pretty rural area with a lot of hunters. The guy knew that line was a lie but he let it go. He died a couple years later. I didn't miss him.
 
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This has been going on for years.
I worked as a reporter at a daily paper for a while. The Assocaied Press sent an article saying, "Hunters don't use handguns."
It was November and the deer hunter's report in our sports pages
included a guy who had taken a nice buck with a .44 Magnum handgun.

I pointed this out to the AP wire editor and suggested he change
it. He refused. The paper was in a pretty rural area with a lot of hunters. The guy knew that line was a lie but he let it go. He died a couple years later. I didn't miss him.
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So, the question, was the "hunters don't use handguns" GENERALLY true, in that, MOST hunters use rifles or shotguns?

As a reporter you learned to report that which was generally accurate, not always having time to drill into every nuance of every detail of every story you wrote. When I wrote for AP while working at local radio stations that was how it tended to work...example "With the ready availability of whiskey and other alcohol moonshining disappeared in the Mountains of Appalachia." [that was from a 1976 book on the history of Appalachia]. It did disappear in the most general sense, MOST of it was gone, but there were [and are] still a few folks who have never stopped making it.
 
Well folks, the same guy repeated the same garbage about machine guns. He was bloviating all over the place but Jason Chaffetz from Utah called him out on it and the conversation shifted. Good job Rep. Chaffetz :)
I think I'll send him another e-mail with a link to NFA rules. :cool:
 
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