Kristin Tate has this article at Breitbart.com: Media Matters has long advertised to the public a commitment to fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating misinformation of its own. The nonprofit generally targets...
media bias on guns
Responding to the Washington Post’s “More guns, less crime? Not exactly”
Emily Badger had a post on concealed carry laws in the July 29th Washington Post claiming that concealed handgun laws have not reduced violent crime rates. Among the claims in the piece where: "That sort of gets lost on people," Webster says, "because the way this...
Media inaccurately describes Target’s position on customers bringing guns into stores
Here are some of the headlines on Target's statement on guns in their stores. Christian Science Monitor: "Target goes gun-free, becoming biggest US retailer asking customers to disarm" Financial Post: "Target Corp to customers: Your guns are not welcome in our stores,...
Talk on Obama and Bloomberg’s false claims about guns
Here are other interesting talks at the session by Nicole Goeser and Andrew Branca
Greg Gutfeld mentions John Lott’s work in discussing Bloomberg’s false 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook claim
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bloomberg's cases involve shootings near a school and a large percentage are gang shootings after hours. While gang fights over drug turf are an important problem, they are a very different issue with different solutions...
CPRC at Fox News: “What the press is missing in Bloomberg’s anti-gun push”
The newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control has largely been a top down effort. Michael Bloomberg’s latest announcement that he will spend another $50 million to push gun control – 2.5 times the amount spent by the NRA annually on political activities –...
Errors in Piers Morgan last speech on guns at the end of his show on CNN
Below is the relevant text of Piers Morgan's comments. Here a few comments. 1) Doesn't Piers recognize the irony that the Aurora movie theater and Newtown shootings both occurred where guns are banned? That the movie theater shooting occurred in the one movie theater...
CPRC on Piers Morgan’s cancelation at CNN
CPRC's president, John Lott, has been on Piers Morgan's CNN show many times. With Morgan's announcement yesterday that his show was being cancelled, John Lott wrote a piece for the National Review Online. The piece starts this way: Sunday’s announcement that Piers...
CPRC at Fox News: “ABC News reports on guns mislead Americans”
John Lott's piece at Fox News started this way: Gun control advocates not only push new fees and taxes on guns to reduce ownership, but they also employ another tactic: scaring people into not owning guns. Last week, on January 31, ABC News saturated its news programs...