ITs not a failure. Its not even bad reporting. In fact, its not reporting at all - its propagandizing a political point by appealing to the lowest common denominator possible - what Limbaugh (and I hate quoting him) refers to as the low information crowd.
A lot of liberals are very well educated: they make up the core of the Globe's leadership, but not necessarily their readership, because educated liberals, whose bias towards firearms and all things conservative is a given. This kind of reporting is not meant to educate, its meant to plant deliberate, if not completely untrue seeds in the minds of those who cannot or will not think for themselves.
In my opinion, these are the people we need to be very wary of - one or two of them aren't a threat, they're laughable. Hundreds to thousands of them blindly following the command structure's every whim, without ever researching or thinking for themselves, are. Like a pied piper, the Globe leads the dirty rats out of their sewers, into the Letters to the Editor column, into their legislators office and eventually, their disease manifests in the form of new laws and an attitude that we as gun owners, are the vermin, when all the while THEY are the vermin.
We need an exterminator. The infestation is at near epidemic levels.
