When The Media Lie

Joey Bunch and Kieran Nicholson recently wrote an article in the Denver Post that stated that, "More than 500 children in the United States die in gun accidents each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a 2007 report, which estimated 1.7 million children live in homes where guns are kept."  However, according to CDC statistics for 2007, they report only 112 unintentional firearm deaths, ages zero through 17.  How did this 388 child factual "misprint" occur?

It's simple, really.  Many in media lie, misstate, and skew positions, so that liberal positions may be advanced. The freedom of the press is recognized and protected in the Constitution, but that doesn't mean they always tell the truth.  It's up to the buyer to be aware.  The mainstream press is often corrupt, and like these writers in the post, there are many facts that must be checked out independently if you really want to know the truth.  Elaborate background schemes even occur in fact-checking circles.  Annenberg, a liberal, runs one of the largest fact-checking organizations, and even Snopes, an on-line, so-called fact-checking group is notoriously liberal and has been completely inaccurate in several issues Greeley Report has investigated.

This is why mainstream news readership is plummeting and blog readers and alternative news and media sites are increasing.  People know what is going on, and are thankful to have alternative viewpoints, and access to the truth instead of being forced to read the garbage put forth by those that have been in control of the news.  The Post article on children and firearms did not attempt to put childhood accidental deaths by firearms into any context by contrasting it with other areas of childhood, accidental death or injury.  None of this occurred.

However, because of public outcry the Post was forced to amend their original article.  A postscript was added stating that there are between 1.57 and 1.82 million children that daily live in houses with loaded and unlocked guns, and yet only 112 were killed accidentally in 2007.  Those statistics change the data and the story significantly, even with the liberal sourcing of "Pediatrics" Magazine used for foundational information.  But who cares?  There is an agenda to guard, and idiots to influence.  Let the reader (or viewer, or listener) beware. 

Comments

[namesrgone]

Or they're sneaky and black news out from view. Today's Tribune is a perfect example. There is a story about the first baby born in Greeley. There was a picture of the mother and child, but the mother's face is hidden from view. Not only is she hidden from view, the parents of this bundle of joy with long black hair, didn't even have their names in the paper. Every single one of the other parents in different cities around were proud to announce their baby's birth. It's natural unless...
And before someone calls me a racist. It's not a racial problem. It's an immigration problem.

[Bobby J.]

When do the media and the State not lie?

These people are unscrupulous.