Media Accountability - What a Concept!!!
Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:15:02
Ermaguard! An editor ACTUALLY, publically, tries to set the record straight.
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns
Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he’d read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn’t possibly be true.
An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.
“Really?” Doud wrote. “Does it really sound believable that one kid out of every 24 has witnessed a shooting in the last year? I think not, unless it was on TV, in a movie, or in a video game. In that case it would probably be more like 100 percent.”
