CBS' "FBI: Most Wanted" (S3 E2, September 28, 2021) has an episode where it paints those who believe that the election was stolen as dangerous fanatics. The show provides completely made up clips of violence at the US Capitol on January 6th (why not use the real...
This show claims that there were 44 "transgender and gender non-conforming" people murdered in 2020. According to estimates from the Williams Institute at UCLA, there are 1.4 million transgender adults. CBS's Blue Bloods (Season 11, Episode 11, Friday, April 9, 2021)...
This episode of Chicago PD tries to show the risks of a woman having a gun at home for her protection. In this case, the woman's son takes the gun to school. As the pictures from the boy's notebook indicate, he had planned to engage in a mass public shooting. But...
Television entertainment shows keep pushing a myth by gun control advocates that gun licensing and registration is an effective way to solve crime. Their reasoning is straightforward: If a criminal leaves a gun (or for this show a bullet casing) at a crime scene, they...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t-XBgOABg Each time Maya Travis (Robin Tunney), who plays the show’s lead, tries to use a gun in self-defense something goes wrong. Previously, in the first episode, she almost shot her boyfriend Riv (Marc Blucas) because she thought...
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police. Some hyperbole is to be expected on television, but the level of exaggeration has become pretty over-the-top. In real life, criminals use machine...
During negotiations with a formidable sociopath who is targeting diabetics with tainted insulin, CBS’s Ransom Eric Beaumont, the shows main character played by Luke Roberts, explains to the killer why he stopped working for the FBI. Beaumont, the good guy, says that...
CBS's Bull continues its consistent bias against gun ownership (previous shows during Season 3 are here and here). In Season 3, episode 18, the episode fits gun control advocates claims about the dangers of guns in the home, particularly their assertions about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmr1tZgyYkE Television entertainment shows keep pushing a myth by gun control advocates that a gun registry is an effective way to solve crime. Their reasoning is straightforward: If a gun has been left at a crime scene, the registry...
Are innocent people convicted of murder? Yes, though it is extremely rare. Have innocent people been executed? Not in modern times. But CBS's Ransom continues the false claim innocent people are being executed in recent years in the US. Eric Beaumont (played by Luke...
Maya Travis (Robin Tunney), who plays the show's lead, almost shoots her boyfriend Riv (Marc Blucas) because she accidentally thinks that he is an intruder. The only use of a gun the show is one that endangers someone's life. For other examples of media bias against...
In Episode 12 of Season 4, Natalie (Torrey DeVitto) asks Will (Nick Gehlfuss) to move back in with her. But she has a condition: he must get rid of his gun. His handgun has been a major, long-standing problem between them, and this time Will finally relents. But he...