Monday, April 20, 2009

Journalistic Ethics at ABC

The "Jan" listed as a gun-owning father in this story is Jan Nickels - an old friend from grade/high school, who still currently lives only about 5 miles from me. He is an ex-Marine and is well-schooled in firearms and firearm safety. We are fellow members of the same local shooting club.

I called Jan as soon as I read the story. As it turns out, ABC News tricked Jan and others to participate in what was obviously always been intended to be an anti-gun attack. In fact, this story starts with a false premise and goes quickly downhill. At this point I will let Jan tell the rest of his story... [More]


Jeff Riley turns his eye on the ABCs of "Authorized Journalism."

Go read his exposé and watch the supporting videos.

And then help get the word out.

1 comment:

straightarrow said...

The best indicator that ABC and the rest of the MSM know they are lying is that they have no qualms about showing utter contempt for gunowners to the point of publicly disrespecting them, lying about them, and gulling them into situations where their words can be torqued into unrecognizable patterns.

If they truly believed us to be gun nuts, hot-headed rednecks, mentally unstable, or just mean and anxious to kill, they wouldn't dare treat us this way.

Of course, one never knows for sure when enough mistreatment will cause a reaction. But at this point, it is obvious these lying bastards don't even believe themselves. Why should we?