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CNN, NBC Mostly Ignore Armed Citizens Who Stop Mass Shooter(More on OKC)
newsbusters.org ^ | 5/25/2018 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 05/26/2018 8:31:53 AM PDT by rktman

After news broke that, on Thursday, a gunman trying to perpetrate a mass shooting in Oklahoma City was stopped by two armed citizens who used their own guns against him, FNC has given the story a substantial amount of attention while ABC and CBS have also run full stories on the event.

But CNN barely touched the story, burying it between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m Eastern in a couple of 25-second briefs Friday morning, while NBC and MSNBC have ignored it entirely.

Fox News Channel first began running briefs on Thursday night during Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream, and, on Friday, correspondent William La Jeunesse followed up by presenting several full reports through the day, including on Special Report with Bret Baier. In all FNC has spent almost 10 minutes on the story across three full reports and five briefs.

On CBS, both CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News on Friday each devoted a full report of more than two minutes to the event, and ABC's World News Tonight gave it one and half minutes.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 2a; armed; banglist
Update and clarification on the OKC shooting. Two citizens retrieved their weapons from their vehicles so they weren't carrying concealed. The perp refused to lay his weapon aside. So, did both citizens engage? Still more info out there. Anyone? Bueller?
1 posted on 05/26/2018 8:31:53 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2018/05/25/cnn-nbc-mostly-ignore-armed-citizens-who-stop-mass-shooter


2 posted on 05/26/2018 8:33:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Why didn’t the media trot out a David Hogg type, from this latest school shooting?

Why didn’t CNN do another raucous town hall with the sheriff and an NRA spokeswoman, to push gun control? What changed in the media template?


3 posted on 05/26/2018 8:39:13 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

CNN likely knew TX wasn’t going to play their game. Pence’s Indiana, wouldn’t either.


4 posted on 05/26/2018 8:47:14 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

No AR-15, no story. Too busy laying in the produce aisle at publix super capitulator market. If I still lived in FL, I would quit shopping at publix.


5 posted on 05/26/2018 8:48:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Of course the Leftstream media won’t cover this....it doesn’t fit the narrative.


6 posted on 05/26/2018 8:54:59 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rktman

The truth of this story is harmful to their narrative.


7 posted on 05/26/2018 9:07:24 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victikms, and control freaks.)
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Yes, they are ignored unless the MSM feels they can make a stink about if they were legal to carry. Then it is top story for a week.


8 posted on 05/26/2018 9:18:32 AM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: MileHi

And no AR-15 involvement. Makes you long for the good ol days with sara brady and hci. Sad to say, they are still in the game too.


9 posted on 05/26/2018 9:22:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I rank CBS above Comcast’s NBC, MSNBC.

Dump your Comcast subscriptions.


10 posted on 05/26/2018 11:19:16 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Like (this)

Not like(this)


11 posted on 05/26/2018 1:49:21 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
Good afternoon! 😹👋🏼
12 posted on 05/26/2018 2:30:15 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Howdy howdy!


13 posted on 05/26/2018 2:37:56 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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“”Too busy laying in the produce aisle at publix super capitulator market””

I swear the more I think about that and see pictures of it, if I had been in that market, I would have run into and over those pukes with my grocery cart. I really would. Consequences be d****d... I’m a female in her 80’s and leave a sick husband at home to run to the grocery store and I’d be in no mood to put up with that sickening behavior. I would make sure my cart was full, leave it, and have my last week’s receipt for groceries with me and tell the pharmacy to transfer all our prescriptions to Kroger immediately - BEFORE - they hauled me away. WHY Publix didn’t call the cops for trespassers on private property, I have no idea.
I’m not in FL but close enough for it to come here...Just in no mood to put up with shenanigans from these pukes.


14 posted on 05/26/2018 3:27:26 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: rktman

When the mob finally comes for them, NOBODY will defend THEM.


15 posted on 05/27/2018 5:14:39 AM PDT by elbook
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