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A CNN Founder Answers Why The Media Is Often One-Sided When It Comes To Guns
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If advertisements are what prevent you from reading the news, then you've never read a printed newspaper or magazine in your life, eh? How do you sit through Fox News with all those commercials for Rogaine and Viagra?
Right, cause the newspapers don't have adds in them.
Speaking of Fox and their commercials: as I expressed total annoyance about their commercials in the past, how they not only cut their guests in the middle of a sentence to air a commercial, now not only these idiots cut themselves, I noticed recently that they even cut other commercials before they end and start a new one. Absolutely ridiculous. Apparently (I heard one of their talking heads once, I am sure she didn't mean to expose it), they have a computer that automatically cuts them and put commercials in, so they can see on the clock when the computer is ready to kick in and they try to be 'polite' and let the guest finish speaking. So apparently the damn computer can't keep up with the commercial time slot so it cuts other commercials in the middle
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I wonder if the advertiser company gets a refund for the cut commercial.
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Ditto. They completely block access if you run an ad blocker. I haven't read anything on their site since.
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It's a great article, not just about guns, but about why the mainstream media have turned into what they are.
It said what anyone who pays attention already knows. The MSM doesn't actually report news. They aren't real journalists. They will not report on facts, if those facts don't support their opinion. Instead, they are simply TV 'stars' who push their own personal feelings as 'news'. Not even original ones at that.
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Use the BRAVE browser. Built in ad blocking; works fine with forbes.com
Great article, thanks for posting it.
To those who won't/can't read it, it simply stated what most of us already know about the vast majority of so-called "news reporters".
Bernie Shaw's comment to the CNN 35th anniversary get-together is worth the read.
To those who won't/can't read it, it simply stated what most of us already know about the vast majority of so-called "news reporters".
Bernie Shaw's comment to the CNN 35th anniversary get-together is worth the read.
Ad-block / pay wall. **** em. Won't send traffic their way.
One of the clearest, most straightforward explanations I've heard in a while. Hope you don't mind if I repeat it to others.
Thanks for the tip on the Brave browser Rob. Works pretty good for what I need. Reasonably fast, not so resource intensive, and loads fast.
Jay
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Yep, that worked. Thanks, Rob.
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Great read.
Please, let's drop the "they ad-block, F'em". Right now, 20% of the posters in this thread have said nothing but that. No need to post just to say you're angry they want to show you ads.
Please, let's drop the "they ad-block, F'em". Right now, 20% of the posters in this thread have said nothing but that. No need to post just to say you're angry they want to show you ads.
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It wasn't my comment. It was one of the comments in the article. I claim no credit.
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Here is the article...
A CNN Founder Answers Why The Media Is Often One-Sided When It Comes To Guns
The reporting on why U.S. Army personnel stationed at recruiting centers aren’t allowed to be armed has to make anyone who knows a little about guns, and the gun issues, wonder if those news outlets are aware of what they’re not reporting? Do they understand why some Americans feel compelled to stand outside Army recruiting centers with guns? Any curious person might then wonder if ignorance or bias is the central reason why the mainstream media so often ignores studies and facts that are inconvenient to the anti-gun-rights point of view? There are, after all, over 100 million gun owners in the U.S., so how can mainstream journalists not be aware of basic facts about guns or of the reasons behind other points of view?
To understand how CNN, in particular, became a media outlet only interested in one point of view on guns I called one of its original seven founding members, Jim Shepherd, now the editor and publisher of The Shooting Wire. Shepherd has held a number of senior news executive positions during his career, including with CNN, the Financial News Network, the Golf Channel, and other television networks. He left CNN in 1985 after he became “disgusted with what they wouldn’t report.”
Jim Shepherd (shown here) is one of the original founders of CNN. He is now the publisher of The Shooting Wire. What he has to say about CNN and guns is profound.
Jim says, “Part of what happened to CNN is what happened to Hollywood. The news, like Hollywood, became trapped in creating and fawning over celebrities. Getting Anderson Cooper publicized became more important than breaking the big story. When you have celebrity reporters telling you how they feel about being in Iraq instead of reporting on how our troops are doing you begin to lose perspective. With guns, instead of going to gun ranges, gun-owner’s homes, instead of interviewing women who’d stopped an attacker, and instead of really trying to understand the world such women live in and what they’re going through, they just tell us how they feel. Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and the rest are stars, not reporters. They’re not hunting for the truth. They’re telling you what they think and what they think all comes from the cocktail parties on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and from conversations with other reporters.”
When I ask about his experience at CNN, he says, “When I was at CNN the lead stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post drove what we covered. They still do that for CNN and network news to a large extent. The cable news’ reporters and producers are intellectually lazy. They’re so busy chasing each other they don’t stop to find the truth.”
I ask how we break this cycle and Jim laughs before saying, “It’s happening now. CNN’s ratings are plummeting. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times have seen their staffs cut as their circulations have dropped. CNN now has as many viewers as they did in 1985. They can’t understand how they’re being beaten. They don’t want to hear the truth, that they’ve lost touch. I tried to tell them once. They invited me to an annual party at CNN. They invited all the founding members on CNN’s 25th anniversary. They asked me to give a speech. I stood up and told them that they’re out of touch. I told them they have to go back to their roots and question everything. I told them to take off the filter and report what they find. Yeah, they’ll never have me back again.
“Or so I thought. I was invited back this summer for CNN’s the 35th anniversary. When I went back, I realized that there weren’t any of the ‘old guard’ who had any respect for today’s CNN. In fact, Bernie Shaw spoke to the entire group and told them that ‘if they worked very hard to change the way they did things today and got back to the facts, they might be able to shine the shoes of the real journalists who started what has become CNN today.”
I want to know how Jim got into guns when he spent his whole career at CNN and the newsrooms of the network’s affiliates, and he says, “I grew up on a farm in Kentucky. I grew up with guns. But, yeah, I didn’t shoot for 25 years. I loved my job and got into that news culture. I concentrated on business news and international news, so I didn’t have a lot of contact with the gun issue. I didn’t get back into shooting until I noticed, after I’d started The Golf Wire, that the shooting industry needed an online news service. So I started The Shooting Wire and The Outdoor Wire.
“I didn’t know it at the time, but I became a part of alternative media that was undermining the mainstream media’s influence. I was just trying to provide a needed service,” Jim says, “but since we started The Shooting Wire in 2002 we’ve grown so big so fast that I see how new media is teaching people about what’s really going on. We’re just one voice among a lot of new blogs, newsletters, forums, and all that. We’re a big one, but really this is the future. The only way it stops and the mainstream media regains control of the narrative and so can dumb-down people again by not reporting what doesn’t fit into the liberal narrative, would be by government fiat. A new Fairness Doctrine or something.”
In closing, Jim says, “A lot of my former colleagues have accused me of selling out. Really, that’s how they think. I tell them no, you sold out a long time ago. Now you’re such a shill you can’t even see it.” (Frank Miniter is the author of The Future of the Gun.)
A CNN Founder Answers Why The Media Is Often One-Sided When It Comes To Guns
The reporting on why U.S. Army personnel stationed at recruiting centers aren’t allowed to be armed has to make anyone who knows a little about guns, and the gun issues, wonder if those news outlets are aware of what they’re not reporting? Do they understand why some Americans feel compelled to stand outside Army recruiting centers with guns? Any curious person might then wonder if ignorance or bias is the central reason why the mainstream media so often ignores studies and facts that are inconvenient to the anti-gun-rights point of view? There are, after all, over 100 million gun owners in the U.S., so how can mainstream journalists not be aware of basic facts about guns or of the reasons behind other points of view?
To understand how CNN, in particular, became a media outlet only interested in one point of view on guns I called one of its original seven founding members, Jim Shepherd, now the editor and publisher of The Shooting Wire. Shepherd has held a number of senior news executive positions during his career, including with CNN, the Financial News Network, the Golf Channel, and other television networks. He left CNN in 1985 after he became “disgusted with what they wouldn’t report.”
Jim Shepherd (shown here) is one of the original founders of CNN. He is now the publisher of The Shooting Wire. What he has to say about CNN and guns is profound.
Jim says, “Part of what happened to CNN is what happened to Hollywood. The news, like Hollywood, became trapped in creating and fawning over celebrities. Getting Anderson Cooper publicized became more important than breaking the big story. When you have celebrity reporters telling you how they feel about being in Iraq instead of reporting on how our troops are doing you begin to lose perspective. With guns, instead of going to gun ranges, gun-owner’s homes, instead of interviewing women who’d stopped an attacker, and instead of really trying to understand the world such women live in and what they’re going through, they just tell us how they feel. Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and the rest are stars, not reporters. They’re not hunting for the truth. They’re telling you what they think and what they think all comes from the cocktail parties on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and from conversations with other reporters.”
When I ask about his experience at CNN, he says, “When I was at CNN the lead stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post drove what we covered. They still do that for CNN and network news to a large extent. The cable news’ reporters and producers are intellectually lazy. They’re so busy chasing each other they don’t stop to find the truth.”
I ask how we break this cycle and Jim laughs before saying, “It’s happening now. CNN’s ratings are plummeting. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times have seen their staffs cut as their circulations have dropped. CNN now has as many viewers as they did in 1985. They can’t understand how they’re being beaten. They don’t want to hear the truth, that they’ve lost touch. I tried to tell them once. They invited me to an annual party at CNN. They invited all the founding members on CNN’s 25th anniversary. They asked me to give a speech. I stood up and told them that they’re out of touch. I told them they have to go back to their roots and question everything. I told them to take off the filter and report what they find. Yeah, they’ll never have me back again.
“Or so I thought. I was invited back this summer for CNN’s the 35th anniversary. When I went back, I realized that there weren’t any of the ‘old guard’ who had any respect for today’s CNN. In fact, Bernie Shaw spoke to the entire group and told them that ‘if they worked very hard to change the way they did things today and got back to the facts, they might be able to shine the shoes of the real journalists who started what has become CNN today.”
I want to know how Jim got into guns when he spent his whole career at CNN and the newsrooms of the network’s affiliates, and he says, “I grew up on a farm in Kentucky. I grew up with guns. But, yeah, I didn’t shoot for 25 years. I loved my job and got into that news culture. I concentrated on business news and international news, so I didn’t have a lot of contact with the gun issue. I didn’t get back into shooting until I noticed, after I’d started The Golf Wire, that the shooting industry needed an online news service. So I started The Shooting Wire and The Outdoor Wire.
“I didn’t know it at the time, but I became a part of alternative media that was undermining the mainstream media’s influence. I was just trying to provide a needed service,” Jim says, “but since we started The Shooting Wire in 2002 we’ve grown so big so fast that I see how new media is teaching people about what’s really going on. We’re just one voice among a lot of new blogs, newsletters, forums, and all that. We’re a big one, but really this is the future. The only way it stops and the mainstream media regains control of the narrative and so can dumb-down people again by not reporting what doesn’t fit into the liberal narrative, would be by government fiat. A new Fairness Doctrine or something.”
In closing, Jim says, “A lot of my former colleagues have accused me of selling out. Really, that’s how they think. I tell them no, you sold out a long time ago. Now you’re such a shill you can’t even see it.” (Frank Miniter is the author of The Future of the Gun.)
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