Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I hate guns." NBC's Reverie has had three episodes so far. A common theme through the three shows has been that Mara Kint (played by the very...
Dr. John Lott's newest article at The Hill newspaper starts this way: Another mass public shooting in another gun-free zone, and yet again the media ignores it. Right at the front of the Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, Tennessee was a sign prohibiting firearms....
We have previously run into trouble with Twitter censoring our activity. Gavin McGinnis recently posted a Tweet linking to some of our research correcting false statements made by Vox.com on guns. But Twitter provided the following warning: So what does "sensitive...
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I don't like guns." Here the sheriff's young son is talking to a deputy who jokingly says that the boy could one day be sheriff. When the boy says "I...
NBC seems to have given out orders to its TV shows to include some anti-gun/pro-gun control mention in them. In this episode of Taken, the show tries to briefly and subtly convey to viewers that gun-free zones work because the criminals won't disobey the bans. Does...
In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man's ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man's mother and a fireman. (If you don't mind increasing NBC's estimated number of people who...
Here is YouTube's new policy: “YouTube doesn’t allow content that encourages or promotes violence or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death...” said a letter from Youtube to Spike’s Tactical that the gun manufacturer posted on...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper on the bias of fact checkers and the impact that they have on the gun control debate. Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality. Especially on social...
Politifact's Jon Greenberg claims: "NRA's Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban." They rate the claim as "mostly false." On ABC News’ This Week Dana Loesch had this to say: Loesch: "France had a higher casualty rate in...
Politifact's Jon Greenberg claims: "Florida lawmaker repeats dodgy claim about crimes by cops vs. concealed permit holders." They rate the claim as "false." This is in response to our research "comparing conviction rates of police and permit holders." The Florida...
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...
The gap between what audiences think of a movie and what top movie critics think of a movie has rarely been larger than for Bruce Willis' "Death Wish." In fact, it is numerically very difficult for that gap to be any larger. While only 8% of the top critics (and 14%...