• Email   • Share:  How Our Media Mislead on Guns  That could be
a long post! For now, let’s just note one aspect of the news
media’s biased gun coverage: the media frequently paint the
National Rifle Association as a sinister, shadowy organization
that exercises a mysterious power over legislation. Thus this
Yahoo News headline on a Christian Science Monitor article:
This is silly. Obviously, Congress has the “muscle” to pass
whatever it wants to, and neither “gun lobby”–either pro or
con–has any power to dictate to Congress. What is happening is
that the pro-gun control forces don’t have the votes for the
unconstitutional legislation they would like to enact. So,
rather than acknowledging that gun control is unpopular, our
media moguls prefer to attribute its failure to unexplained
machinations by the NRA.  Will the ignorance on firearms ever
end? If they insist on writing about guns, isn’t it reasonable
to expect that news organizations will employ someone, a
reporter or editor, who knows something about