[visualops]

I had just finished reading this over at CNS News.
This should be required reading.

[chicagolady]

I just saw and heard John Lott at the Chicago Conservative Conference. His examples of media bias were crystal clear. Now if we could only get Mayor Daley to read it and pass a conceal and carry law we would have less crime here in Chicago. He told me a surprizing fact. All the states around Illinois are or are trying to become conceal and carry states!!!

Michigan just reached a year with thier conceal and carry law and it has been very successful. The state is pleased it has been a positive rather than a negative and crime is down. UNFORTUNATELY THAT does not make headline news!!

[lurky]

The comparison of gun-related crimes vs. crimes prevented by guns is kind of a weird one. It's obvious that the media (especially local tv affiliates) thrive off crimes committed rather than crimes prevented, as fear sells papers, keeps eyes glued to the screen, etc. So it's in the media's better interest to report crimes committed way over and above crimes prevented. Not necessarily a bias against guns but a bias towards cultivating fear. It's in the nature of the beast.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[AnnaZ]

Is an archive of Dr. Lott's interview available anywhere?

[Terriergal]

We *really* need to get some of Lott's books... also "Shooting Back" by Van Wyk.

[demosthenes the elder]

hrmn...
seems I'll want to place this new book beside its brother in my library.
Thanks for the heads-up.

[Frohickey]

You know, there is a very simple way out of this for the media.

At the very end of the news story, the exact final ultimate sentence of the story should read...

And today, over 200 million guns were not used in a criminal act!

[liberalnot]

guns are illegal in mexico, yet people die daily from gang violence, drug cartel violence, and the mexican government.

[Tailback]

He was on a local radio talk show hyping his book today. He was very good and it was a great hour segment with some great discussion from callers. The bias against guns in newspapers goes much farther that just headlines. Let's take the Oregonian for example. High school sports are given a lot of play in the sports section, in fact even sports like high school golf during the state finals get pictures and write-ups. Well an Oregon team won the Whistler Boy team junior championship at the National Championships at Camp Perry and I don't remember the Oregonian showing any pictures of them or doing an article. One of the shooters off that team won the High Civilian shooter award also and I don't recall an article on his achievment in the state's largest newspaper.

[PhilDragoo]

"It has a bias for the event over the non-event, the thing that actually happened as opposed to the thing that never happened, for the violent over the placid, for the dramatic over the mundane," Waldman said.

That's crap.

1) If it bleeds, it leads;

2) Guns are only good in the hands of cops;

3) Guns used to prevent crime? Sorry, that's counter to our agenda and we airbrush it out.