National Geographic gun expose instead exposes journalistic bias

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 19 July, 2013 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

A National Geographic “undercover team” wants to end private firearm sales and ban those they find disturbing. They never say it honestly and outright, but that’s the conclusion one walks away with after viewing the hysterical hit piece embedded in a July 16 ABC “Nightline” report.

“Investigative journalist” Mariana van Zeller is appropriately incredulous and intimidated as “former police officer and firearms expert turned private investigator” Jesse Torrez guides her through such shocking activities as looking up classified ads on the internet, dialing the phone and driving to meet people to make private transactions. Had someone with experience in such matters, that is, had a journalist who actually understands the subject matter, been assigned to the story, its tone of breathless suspense would have been more difficult to maintain, camera angles, Hollywood-type concealed wires and ominous buildups notwithstanding.

Beginning with an assertion presented as unquestioned by resident bobble-head Dan Abrams, the Nightline segment is introduced with the assumption “most law-abiding gun owners may not think a whole lot about AK-47s or powerful sniper rifles unless they're in the military, collectors, or in the worst-case scenario, criminals.”

What a bunch of Bloombergian talking point drek. Even the anti-gun New York Times admits “Anyone seeking to limit the sale of assault weapons must reckon with the fact that millions of Americans own guns that might be classified as one, and for many it is no more exotic than, say, a motorcycle or sports car, from which they derive a similar satisfaction.”

[marktwain]

It says a lot that these people want to ban guns that are hardly ever used in crime, but are some of the most protected by the Constitution because they would be most useful to a militia.

Facts and logic never get in the way of the "progressive" agenda.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[rockrr]

It figures. The left has succeeded in ruining every damned thing that I grew up with. I loved NG as a kid. We were dirt poor and couldn’t afford a subscription so we would go over to a neighbors house who did.

If they lowered themselves to cheap partisan articles like this then I surely never noticed. All I saw was the world in beautiful color photographs. Strange and exotic places, nature displayed spectacularly. Oh yea - and every once in a while bare-breasted Africans ;-)

Another sigh and one more thing to walk away from.

*sigh*

[BipolarBob]

AK-47s are fun to shoot but that probably wasn't covered in their expose.

[DirtyPigpen]

Gun grabbers should be hung.

[Blood of Tyrants]

More trash journalism.

[BenLurkin]

Nat Geo has been a fringe left publication for decades now.

[dancusa]

John Stossel was the best. ABC must of fired him for telling the truth. FAIR and Media matters hate him.

[Ramius]

I watched this program. It was infuriating. “Biased” isn’t even fair... It was beyond that. Willfully manipulative is what it was. Their target audience could only be people that know virtually nothing about firearms. They’re the only ones that wouldn’t see it for the idiotic mess that it is.

[Standing Wolf]

“Biased” isn’t even fair... It was beyond that. Willfully manipulative is what it was.

[sincerity, average] Well, yeah, but can you imagine how awful journalism would be if it were state-controlled? [/sincerity]

[null and void]

[BenLurkin]

Joe Biden’s AR-15 Gun Advice For Women “get a shotgun” Skewered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2I5LS08H8&feature=fvwp

[wita]

“Nat Geo has been a fringe left publication for decades now”.

Geography major in 1966 even then it was pretty obvious they were not God’s gift to the study, and over time they have gotten worse not better.

[Stosh]

Forty years ago “Scientific American” used to be a good read, and now it’s shot through with leftist propaganda as well.

Their bogus political philosophy would be bad enough if it just resulted in political folly (see, for example, Detroit), but no, liberals have got to diminish every bloody thing that matters, from education to entertainment to religion to even magazines that treat topics that should be totally apolitical.

[duffee]

I should be hung, gun grabbers should be hanged.

[TEXOKIE]

Same thing with the “Smithsonian” magazine.

[Kip Russell]

Has National Geographic run out of elephants to photograph?

[ZULU]

Memo to self: NEVER again EVER buy National Geographic, or read the same and tell as many people in the gun community as possible why.

[muir_redwoods]

I let my 20 year-old subscription to Scientific American lapse when that miserable collectivist Michael Rennie became the editor. Dozens of articles about the need for the end to private cars, the need for collectivist food production and distribution and global warming and I was done.

[MarkL]

Incredibly biased reporting... Not particularly surprising, though I was surprised by her partner (hiding in the truck outside, listening in) acting as if she was in mortal harm when she went into a gun store to buy 14 AKs for someone else, and the store owner explained the fact that what she trying to do was commit a felony.

Mark