Saturday, February 02, 2008

The Most Trusted Name in News

Surveillance video showed him grabbing her service revolver, a .40-caliber Glock, and shooting her 15 times in the head and body.

"Authorized Journalists."

Doesn't this give you a warm feeling all over, knowing the American people are having their opinions on guns shaped by the most informed experts in the business?

[Via John Hardin]
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11 comments:

  1. chris horton2/02/2008 1:06 PM

    Wow, a 15 shot revolver? And a Glock at that? They have the craziest weapons those "only ones."

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  2. Anonymous2/02/2008 2:09 PM

    Hey where can I get one of them there Glock Revolvers??


    [Sarcasm off]

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  3. BobG2/02/2008 2:51 PM

    I want to see this plastic, 15 shot revolver...

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  4. Anonymous2/02/2008 3:14 PM

    You guys are idiots. The cylinder on these are too big. You can't comfortably conceal them.

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  5. Anonymous2/02/2008 10:21 PM

    You know, I wish we could get paid for being dead, stinking WRONG.

    Haven't journalists earned their way to being ranked right up there with weathermen and used car salemen yet?

    Of course, the idiots we are, we still believe weathermen and salesmen.

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  6. Brent Greer2/02/2008 11:08 PM

    There was a time when you could be fired for a glaring error of fact like this one . . .

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  7. closed2/03/2008 12:28 AM

    Probably some kind of crap in their required "style" for AP.

    All cop held firearms are "service revolvers" ... the "Only Ones" get bang toys because they perform a public service.

    I think we can figure out what AP standard style terms are for citizen held firearms ...

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  8. The Mad Hatter2/04/2008 7:37 PM

    And it had a barrel shroud, too, don't forget the barrel shroud!

    Geez. Journalism is becoming more and more the place for fiction authors who haven't quite gotten their big break in the grown-up world of commercial publishing.

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  9. Yuri Orlov2/05/2008 1:45 AM

    Damn, they changed it:

    "Surveillance video showed him grabbing her service weapon, a .40-caliber Glock, and shooting her 15 times in the head and body"

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  10. David Codrea2/05/2008 6:24 AM

    S'OK, Yuri. I'll post my screen shot this morning.

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  11. Anonymous2/05/2008 8:39 AM

    I noticed the change as well.

    Was:
    "Surveillance video showed him grabbing her service revolver"

    Now:
    "Surveillance video showed him grabbing her service weapon"

    How Orwellian.

    Winston Smith couldn't do any better.

    No retraction, no correction, it never was wrong...

    Bravo CNN "The most trusted name in journalism" indeed!

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