TV Bias On Guns: MTV’s Teen Wolf “I Don’t Like Guns”

Oct 18, 2020 | Featured

Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character comes out and says: “I don’t like guns.” In an episode titled “The Benefactor,” MTV’s Teen Wolf has an episode where they first show a man almost accidentally shooting his son and then a completely different scene where another man explains that “I don’t like guns” to a woman who wants to teach him how to use guns for self-defense.

(MTV, Season 4, Episode 8, air date: July 21, 2020)

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