Posted on 05/29/2006 4:24:44 PM PDT by yoe
It looks like ABC News has no problem at all with the appearance of bias, now that they’ve assigned a reporter who used to work for Handgun Control, Inc. to cover firearms-related stories, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said today.
Washington correspondent Jake Tapper once worked for Handgun Control, according to a piece he wrote when he worked for Salon News. His obvious bias greatly alarms SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb.
“This is the same ABC News that rushed to the air this week to report that Republican House Speaker Denny Hastert is under investigation by the Justice Department, when the Justice Department said he wasn’t,” Gottlieb noted. “This is the same news network that added George Stephanopoulos, a former top aide to anti-gun President Bill Clinton. Now they’ve got a former staffer for an extremist gun control group reporting on firearms issues.
“It is no wonder why so many American citizens believe there is an institutional bias in the national press,” Gottlieb continued. “MSNBC’s Chris Matthews once worked for anti-gun Congressman Tip O’Neill and wrote speeches for Jimmy Carter. NBC’s Tim Russert was chief of staff for anti-gun Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and was a counselor for Mario Cuomo, an avowed gun prohibitionist. Does anyone see a pattern here?”
SAF urges gun owners to express their disappointment to ABC News by e-mail at: support@abcnews.go.com, or via mail to ABC News, 7 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.
“Tapper has an established anti-gun bias, and for a network that claims objectivity, having him report on gun-related stories is insulting,” Gottlieb said. “What if he is assigned to cover this summer’s conference on global gun control being held at the United Nations? I’m going to be there. Can I expect him to approach this subject with an open mind? His history with Handgun Control, and his writings in Salon tell me his mind is made up.
“Why is it that ABC does not include Tapper’s affiliation with a gun control organization in his biographical information,” Gottlieb wondered. “Is this to shield the network’s bias against guns?
“The American public wants news, not advocacy,” Gottlieb concluded. “We expect factual and fair reporting, not subtle spin or propaganda.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
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Mike Wallace is no longer allowed to cover firearm issues.
Let's not forget the WELL-DOCUMENTED, VERIFIABLE PLAN Democrats published, BEFORE the 2004 Elections, to WORK WITH THE MEDIA TO LIE TO THE PUBLIC AND ENGAGE IN WIDESPREAD MANIPULATION AND PROPAGANDA TO ATTACK AMERICA AND UNDERMINE BUSH!
Here is the original version of the story, in the WAYBACKMACHINE even though it has LONG been removed from the web site!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1476.shtml
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USA Today Reporter a (D) Operative - Phone Company Demands Retraction of NSA LIE
Why the NSA STORY is CRUCIAL to the TREASONOUS MEDIA
Why the Media Doesn't See its TREASON
Media miscues seem bulging with left-wing bias (The never ending media propaganda on behalf of the DNC)
The Never Ending DNC Media Propaganda Machine (Exposing DNC media propaganda where it hides)
ABC's of Media Bias (Anti-American Radical Left Control of Corrupt Media)
Gregory came to DC to cover a BJ. Tapper's first paid gig was to write about his date with the BJ giver.
And that's the state of today's journalism.
Kind of makes it hard to take Gregory or Tapper seriously.
Gregory came to DC to cover a BJ. Tapper's first paid gig was to write about his date with the BJ giver.
And that's the state of today's journalism.
Kind of makes it hard to take Gregory or Tapper seriously.
I thought Tapper's thing was that he's HIV+ ...? Didn't he get the sack from Salon for hiring on with some conservative political campaign, and then licking all the doorknobs in hopes of infecting the candidate... and then writing about it?
I always figured him for a guy who found in Monica a role model rather than what most guys see in her (a [widely] shared convenience).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Will he be doing an in depth story on single shot 'assault' rifles? Might be fun to watch! ;-)
Archived report - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1476.shtml
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doesn't open - can you post it here" Thanks.
Same network who said that Hassert is "definitely in the mix" in the Abramoff investigation.
I just checked and I've been making a BIG DEAL out of this PUBLISHED Democrat Plan to Destroy America for a couple weeks now.
AS OF TODAY, IT APPEARS THE INTERNET ARCHIVE HAS SCRUBBED, OR CENSORED THIS PAGE!! HOWEVER, I HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN BEFORE WITH TRULY DAMAGING MATERIAL AND HAD THE PRESENSE OF MIND TO GET SCREENSHOTS OF IT!
I will put the images together in a couple days and post a new link since the DEMOCRAT SCRUBBERS ARE AT WORK!
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What is this ABC of which you speak?
We have to double check all news coming from any MSM source: N.Y. Times, CBS, AP, MSNBC, NBC, CNN, Pravda, Aljazeera, Isvestia, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, FOX, doesn't matter. They are all unreliable. They "report" opinions, fabricate, lie, distort, exaggerate.
Generations of newsies don't know what glug glug means. It was before their time, but Titanic followers do.
You have to double check all news coming from ABC....
You don't have to check. Radio, Web or TV, if its ABC, NYT or AP I don't bother to read or listen.
The writer forget Richard Clarke, "terrorism expert" hired the day he said Condi lied. And of course Mario Coumo's son.
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This is not necessarily a bad thing.
HCI-issued propaganda is so shrill and over-the-top that no self-respecting individual would fall for it (unless one is brain-damaged or a liberal, but I repeat myself).
If this induhvidual retains that style from his days at HCI, any news reports he issues will be laughable.
I suspect the 8 people left watching ABC don't own guns anyway.
We have to double check all news coming from any MSM source: N.Y. Times, CBS, AP, MSNBC, NBC, CNN, Pravda, Aljazeera, Isvestia, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, FOX, doesn't matter. They are all unreliable. They "report" opinions, fabricate, lie, distort, exaggerate.So basically we have to double-check all news coming from any source, "main stream" or not? mainstream media lie, alternative media lie, bloggers lie, religious leaders lie, documents lie, etc. The old school "city news" editors would ask cub reports "Does you mother love you?". Nowadays, asking that question would bring HR down on the editors head, Tradition or not.
The link works for me.
Here's the direct link to the latest copy found in the list from the link provided above:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040613035649/www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=13&num=1476
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