Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall about the news media's biased coverage of President Trump statements on policing and the Coronavirus. The media is distorting everything that comes out of the Trump administration. Here are four examples from just the last...
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At Real Clear Politics: Hypocrisy in NYT’s Reporting on a COVID-Skeptic’s Death
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics: The New York Times thinks it nailed Fox News. Over the weekend, the Times ran a blistering story that blamed the death of Brooklyn bar owner Joe Joyce on skepticism of the coronavirus panic. Supposedly assured by...
UPDATED: 20.5 State Capitols Officially Allow (and at least 24 allow in practice) Some Form of Legal Firearm Carry
CPRC has found that there are at least 21 State Capitols in the U.S. which officially allow some form of legal firearm carry for either visitors, legislators, employees, or all of the above. Tennessee is the most recent state to allow carrying permitted concealed...
Where does Mexico really get its guns?
Ever wonder where Mexican drug cartels are getting all their weapons? After all, since 1972, the most power rifle that you can buy in the country is a .22 caliber weapon. Yet, Mexican drug cartels have grenades, grenade launchers, and fully automatic guns. We have...
At Townhall: Ilhan Omar Defended by Media and Fact Checkers
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) comments about terrorism. The piece starts this way: As if Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hasn’t already said enough controversial things, a new video surfaced this week of an old interview with her on...
At National Review: Bernie Sanders Is Wrong: Felons Shouldn’t Vote from Prison
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at NationalReview.com about Senator Bernie Sanders' proposal that felons in prison be able to vote. The piece starts this way: Democrats used to argue that once felons had served their time, they had paid their debts to society and should...
UPDATE: Regarding Media Bias Fact Checks reference to John Lott’s research receiving money from the NRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFk4nnK0rk New: Media Bias Fact Check has updated their post on the CPRC, though it really just repackages "claims made that John Lott & the CPRC are funded by the NRA" No evidence is provided. The video of the claim by Alan...
At the Daily Caller: There are lots of ways social media outlets can bias political debate
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed at the Daily Caller about the social media bias that we have faced at Facebook. There are lots of ways that social media outlets can bias political debates. We have heard of everything from accounts being closed down to deciding what stories...
On the Vicki McKenna Show to discuss Public Health claims about the costs and benefits of gun ownership
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Vicki McKenna Show to discuss Public Health claims about the costs and benefits of gun ownership. In particular, the claim that gun ownership in the home is more likely to result in a suicide or you assaulting a friend or relative than to...
At The Hill: “The media just can’t stop lying about Trump”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in The Hill about the constant lies that the media makes against President Trump. President Trump’s half-hour, impromptu interview on Fox & Friends on last Friday sent the media’s fact checkers into overdrive this weekend. Everyone...
Crime Prevention Research Center in the News: USA Today, Rolling Stone, CNN, Sky News, and others
USA Today, May 4, 2018 Fox News columnist John Lott said the "news media love to criticize hypocrisy — at least by conservatives — even when it doesn’t exist." "Protecting the president and vice president of the United States from assassination is not the same as...
At National Review: Trump’s NRA Speech: A Response to the Fact-Checkers
Dr. John Lott has a piece at National Review that responds to some of the "Fact Checkers" who went after President Trump's talk at the NRA Annual meeting. The piece starts this way: On Sunday, Jake Tapper told Kellyanne Conway, “I would like [Trump] to stop lying.”...