Maxnobknee
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Channel 5 WLWT here in Cincinnati recently aired a segment titled "Gun Show Loophole Still exists in Tri-State. It was a horribly biased story and you can read the experience of lone pro-gun supporter who appeared in the report during the interview and the info the reporter conveniently "left out" of the report here:
Excerpt:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4058.html
Media bias exposed in NBC Cincinnati undercover piece on ''gun show loophole''
Posted on Friday, November 23 @ 00:10:00 EST by cbaus
"Cincinnati NBC reporter Eric Flack obediently beats the drum for more gun control
By Tim Inwood
If you had put your hand to your ear and listened to the East, you would have heard the presses going at the Brady Campaign as they put out press releases begging the media to begin to bang the drums calling for new gun control laws. Ever the obedient creature, the press obeyed. For the past several months I have noted shrill voices coming across the television and radio calling for much needed new gun control regulations.
The talking heads have called for banning .50 caliber rifles, as well as reinstating the worthless Clinton Semi-automatic firearms ban. Worse, they want to expand the parameters of the original ban to include innocuous guns like the little Ruger 10/22. As of late, the call has been to close the "Gun Show Loophole".
On Thursday the 15th, I was contacted by Eric Flack of WLWT Channel 5 News in Cincinnati. He told me he was doing a story on criminals obtaining guns at gun shows and wanted someone to come down and talk with them. We talked for several minutes and finally agreed that I would come down around 8PM for a studio interview. I had my apprehensions about doing this: The media rarely gives gun owners a fair shake, and sadly this was no exception. In a four minute report, I was on air for ten seconds at best."
Please take the time to read the rest and when you are done contact the station and let them know your opinion.
General Manager: Richard Dyer
(513) 412-5010 /wlwtgm (insert at symbol )wlwt.com
- News Director: Brennan Donnellan
(513) 412-5098 / newsdirector(insert at symbol )wlwt.com
Give them a call and email them......as always be respectful but call them out. I got more traction on the factual errors in the report using the phrase "If I can't trust you to report accurately on topics I am knowledgeable about, how can I trust you to report accurately on topics that I am not familiar with?" "It hurts your credibility on every story you do, when you allow sloppy reporting to make it to the air". He seem very flustered by this line of reasoning and agreed with me on that point. I am going to follow up my email with a letter as sometimes email "gets deleted accidentally"
Excerpt:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4058.html
Media bias exposed in NBC Cincinnati undercover piece on ''gun show loophole''
Posted on Friday, November 23 @ 00:10:00 EST by cbaus
"Cincinnati NBC reporter Eric Flack obediently beats the drum for more gun control
By Tim Inwood
If you had put your hand to your ear and listened to the East, you would have heard the presses going at the Brady Campaign as they put out press releases begging the media to begin to bang the drums calling for new gun control laws. Ever the obedient creature, the press obeyed. For the past several months I have noted shrill voices coming across the television and radio calling for much needed new gun control regulations.
The talking heads have called for banning .50 caliber rifles, as well as reinstating the worthless Clinton Semi-automatic firearms ban. Worse, they want to expand the parameters of the original ban to include innocuous guns like the little Ruger 10/22. As of late, the call has been to close the "Gun Show Loophole".
On Thursday the 15th, I was contacted by Eric Flack of WLWT Channel 5 News in Cincinnati. He told me he was doing a story on criminals obtaining guns at gun shows and wanted someone to come down and talk with them. We talked for several minutes and finally agreed that I would come down around 8PM for a studio interview. I had my apprehensions about doing this: The media rarely gives gun owners a fair shake, and sadly this was no exception. In a four minute report, I was on air for ten seconds at best."
Please take the time to read the rest and when you are done contact the station and let them know your opinion.
General Manager: Richard Dyer
(513) 412-5010 /wlwtgm (insert at symbol )wlwt.com
- News Director: Brennan Donnellan
(513) 412-5098 / newsdirector(insert at symbol )wlwt.com
Give them a call and email them......as always be respectful but call them out. I got more traction on the factual errors in the report using the phrase "If I can't trust you to report accurately on topics I am knowledgeable about, how can I trust you to report accurately on topics that I am not familiar with?" "It hurts your credibility on every story you do, when you allow sloppy reporting to make it to the air". He seem very flustered by this line of reasoning and agreed with me on that point. I am going to follow up my email with a letter as sometimes email "gets deleted accidentally"
