NPR Reports that there is no school shooting epidemic ...
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Mr Standfast, over the past 15 years school shootings have been in decline. The perceived increase is totally due to media hyping an agenda.
Mr Standfast, over the past 15 years school shootings have been in decline. The perceived increase is totally due to media hyping an agenda.
As has crime in general. Again it is media and industry hype driving the perception that crime is on the increase or at historically levels. The hype in the gun community is that crime is on the rise so we should all start to carry concealed firearms.
But since most of the money for NPR to operate comes from subscription fees paid by member stations and they get most of their money from member contributions averaging under $250, their paymasters are a broad swath of the American people.
So, what you're saying is that when it comes to guns, the American people vacillate between wanting maximum gun freedom and maximum freedom from gun violence at a schizophrenic pace. I agree with you. We've been doing that since the 18th Century.
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I would have almost agreed until they fired Juan Williams. He is one of three reporters/journalists I liked to listen to on NPR. I don't listen to much of any of their stuff any more.
If I want news I find local stations for local and national/international headlines are good and One America News is a diverse roundup of international and national news. OAN has commentary, but they generally keep news and journalism separate.
I used to listen to NPR programming.
They have always aired programs wherein a liberal speaker‘s full speech is broadcast, a hour or so. I have never heard a conservative speaker allowed this long of a time.
Then, in order that they can claim to provide “balanced” coverage, they bring in a couple of liberal commentators to give a slanted and very brief summation of what conservatives are thinking about the given topic, all the while adding their editorial criticism of the conservative arguments.
They never have real hardcore conservatives on to rebut the hours long liberal presentation.
I hardly call that balanced coverage.
They have always aired programs wherein a liberal speaker‘s full speech is broadcast, a hour or so. I have never heard a conservative speaker allowed this long of a time.
Then, in order that they can claim to provide “balanced” coverage, they bring in a couple of liberal commentators to give a slanted and very brief summation of what conservatives are thinking about the given topic, all the while adding their editorial criticism of the conservative arguments.
They never have real hardcore conservatives on to rebut the hours long liberal presentation.
I hardly call that balanced coverage.
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Just last week, they gave a full 20 min to Josh Sugarrman to lie and misrepresent in a story ostensibly about the health of the gun industry, completely unquestioning wild claims like declining numbers of gun owners, increasingly white-male demographics, declining overall sales, evil-sounding marketing to children (heaven forfend!), claims of responsibility for violence, the NRA as a trade group lobby (barely mentioning the NSSF, which was odd considering the industry focus of the piece & the fact they weren't even contacted for the story). Basically all the usual lies and propaganda from the Violence Policy Center (not disclosed as an anti-gun group, btw) presented as an objective economic analysis by an industry expert, rather than by a hostile lobbyist. They even mentioned how stock prices are falling because of divestment by pensions in gun companies for political reasons; a complete and utter lie.
NPR may not be shrill or screamy, but I don't think I've seen such disingenuous reporting on even the cable channels. The lack of screams is because the audience won't tolerate it, and it actually makes the propaganda more convincing to listeners.
As far as paymasters; I don't care how much they claim comes from listeners. Before every segment, especially gun stories, there is a veritable laundry list of liberal gun control linked lobbying groups rattled off as primary contributors responsible for the story. I'm pretty sure their dollars carry more weight than the dollars of individual listeners, which is why they are mentioned all the time & have segments devoted to their pet issues (including gun control)
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Actually, large urban centers like NYC were never very keen on gun freedom, or civil liberties, or even independence from England.
Very odd choice of words. Also, rather than 'vaccilating,' we've seen a very steady progression toward disarmament since the beginning, marked by a few overreaches by gun grabbers followed by partial rebuffs, but only temporary ones. More recently, we see increasing polarization, or rather, Balkanization across the country as populations decide whether they would rather live in a free or restrictive setting.
Not hardly. Gun control was not even a federal issue until early last century. No, dealing with rebellions doesn't count as 'gun control' in any normal sense of the term.
America has seen declining problems across the board for decades. News media has been ratcheting up sensationalism and has an agenda.
The programming of youth that are all but raised and live for school though is a troubling development. In many places youth spend most of their day in school and a lot of their day out of school doing hours of homework assigned to them. This leaves them far less diverse and well rounded in the experiences and perspectives they get in life.
Combine that with a sense of empowerment at accomplishing something for people of an age where they have generally accomplished little, and they are likely to vote antigun for awhile at a minimum.
The programming of youth that are all but raised and live for school though is a troubling development. In many places youth spend most of their day in school and a lot of their day out of school doing hours of homework assigned to them. This leaves them far less diverse and well rounded in the experiences and perspectives they get in life.
Combine that with a sense of empowerment at accomplishing something for people of an age where they have generally accomplished little, and they are likely to vote antigun for awhile at a minimum.
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