Well Nash, while I watch and read most of what you listed here are some other sources:
Amercian Rifleman - published by the NRA, too bad for you though though, I think you Canadian's are not allowed to read that or become a member. I am a member of course, the reporting on our elected officials is probably biased but at least they are clear on the candidates voting records. As a bonus, the focus on gun rights and crime gives me a real clear view on who is doing what for what reasons.
CBN - christain braodcasting network, again biased, but they do report news that the mainstream media "forgets".
NPR - national public radio, Diane Reeme (sp), and Juan Williams are obvious liberals but the shows are informative/relevant if you weed out the bias of the hosts.
PBS - Public Broadcasting Service, many of the news shows have liberal hosts, but they do actually try to show both sides of an arguement most of the time.
So by the time I read, watch, and listen to the above, and what you listed (AP,Networks etc) I get a pretty clear idea of who is pushing what agenda.
A prime example is the brady bill. I assume you know that over 400,000 felons have been "prevented" from buying guns because of this bill. What I wonder is if you know how many of those felons, who just committed another felony, were or have been prosecuted...less than 1%. So what we see here is that the brady bill's real purpose was to prevent ownership, but had little to do with crimminal behavior or crime. Otherwise we would have about 400,000 additional prisoners, the media would be spouting off about it in hopes of deterring other felons from even trying to buy guns. Now we are after the gun shows, well if those 400,000 felons had been chased and prosecuted with the same zeal as Dead-beat Dad's, there wouldn't be such a problem at gun shows. That example shows very clearly what the real agenda is, more gun restrictions for non-crimminal citizens which amount to infringement of my right to keep and bear arms.
Plus we have the whole other issue now, did any of the felons who were blocked by the brady bill acquire a gun at a gun show and then commit a violent crime with it? If so, using liberal logic, those who failed to prosecute the felony attempt at a purchase are responsible for any crimes committed thereafter. In my view of course, the crimminal is still responsible for his behavior and needs to be held responsible. On the same note, prosecuters should be prosecuted for failure to prosecute laws that were broken, and that goes for all of them, not just the ones who failed to prosecute and had a felon buy at a gun show and commit a crime. We see more and more "selective" enforcement and prosecution these days, meanwhile the mainstream media keeps events like school shootings in the spotlight. Something is wrong with that.
Someone made the point that the media is trying to make a profit. So that makes me wonder if the media has any interest at all in helping to reduce crime. After all would we watch "good news", hehe crime is what the media makes it's money on too, the more to report the better for their bottom line.
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