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Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:52 pm
by Charles L. Cotton
I don't have time to do one more thing, but I have an idea that needs to be pursued. I've watched the 6:00pm CBS news the last two days and it was infuriating. The blatant emotional ploy and outright lies and half-truths are part of the long-term cultural war the media is helping the Obama-Bloomberg Coalition (OBC) wage.

I am revamping the Texas Firearms Coalition website and I want to have a section on Media Bias and Lies. I envision this to include documentation of specific reports and how they are misleading, out right false, or designed purely to promote an emotional response. We would then publicize these facts. We also need to track each and every sponsor advertising during those newscasts so complaint letters and emails can be sent. There would be an automated system set up so people could fill in their name and email address and the sponsor emails would go out. I would like to have literally thousands of complaint emails go out every single day that one of the three major networks broadcasts this garbage. The networks won't care, but their sponsors will.

I'll set it up, but I don't have the time to watch the newscasts and capture the data. If we have enough volunteers to monitor these broadcasts, I'll add it to the new TFC website and we will turn up the heat on these lying dogs.

This is the type of activity we can do to help thwart the OBC, so please step up and help if you can. It would help if we could get dozens of volunteers so no one would have to watch and document more than one or two newscasts each month. (There are only 15 weekday evening newscasts with the three major networks.)

Let me know if you can help.

Thanks,
Chas.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:16 pm
by mojo84
This is awesome. My wife and kids will appreciate it as well as I'm sure they get tired of having to listen to me rebut and point out the lies as I hear them.

Sign me up.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:25 pm
by Superman
Sign me up.

I don't subscribe to cable but I can cover fox news Sunday and meet the press on Sundays.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:41 pm
by A-R
I'm actually watching the Lawrence ODonnel show on MSNBC right now and it's just sick

He's calling Larry Potterfield (MidwayUSA) and the Brownells family (among others) "merchants of death"

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:46 pm
by canvasbck
You would need to assign a whole team to cover Piers Morgan, I couldn't write fast enough to get it all down.

Sounds like a great idea Chas, I will contribute as often as possible.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:52 pm
by JALLEN
Cable will keep you busy. Even Fox, and Fox Business, has some dubious nonsense from time to time. O'Reilly is particularly uninformed about these things.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:58 pm
by Topbuilder
JALLEN wrote:Cable will keep you busy. Even Fox, and Fox Business, has some dubious nonsense from time to time. O'Reilly is particularly uninformed about these things.

I figured he should not be the one up to bat for our side when he started talking about AR-47s. :biggrinjester:

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:08 pm
by G26ster
JALLEN wrote:Cable will keep you busy. Even Fox, and Fox Business, has some dubious nonsense from time to time. O'Reilly is particularly uninformed about these things.
If you think he's bad, you ain't seen nothin' until you listen to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:14 pm
by Stupid
How do we get sponsor's email?

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:31 pm
by K.Mooneyham
Topbuilder wrote:
JALLEN wrote:Cable will keep you busy. Even Fox, and Fox Business, has some dubious nonsense from time to time. O'Reilly is particularly uninformed about these things.

I figured he should not be the one up to bat for our side when he started talking about AR-47s. :biggrinjester:
I truly wish the NRA would get Bill O'Reilly to come out to one of their ranges and let him get trained on, handle, and fire SEVERAL different semi-automatic rifles, so he can see for himself. I think he's probably someone who just doesn't have much in the way of contact with firearms, and is steeped in NYC, to boot. How about it, Mr. Cotton, can you put a bug in someone's ear?

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:06 am
by baldeagle
Charles, what about a FAQ about common journalistic errors that explains things like "clip" is not a magazine and magazine is not a clip, guns don't "go off", they get fired when something depresses the trigger, etc., etc. It could be labeled Common Errors that Journalists Routinely Make About Guns.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:15 am
by RX8er
I like the idea but I can not commit full time. On thought though... the networks sell advertising locally don't they. Meaning the commercials I see in dfw are not the same in Houston?

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:22 am
by G26ster
baldeagle wrote:Charles, what about a FAQ about common journalistic errors that explains things like "clip" is not a magazine and magazine is not a clip, guns don't "go off", they get fired when something depresses the trigger, etc., etc. It could be labeled Common Errors that Journalists Routinely Make About Guns.
:iagree: :iagree: :iagree:

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:34 am
by Wes
G26ster wrote:
baldeagle wrote:Charles, what about a FAQ about common journalistic errors that explains things like "clip" is not a magazine and magazine is not a clip, guns don't "go off", they get fired when something depresses the trigger, etc., etc. It could be labeled Common Errors that Journalists Routinely Make About Guns.
:iagree: :iagree: :iagree:
Could also include common answers to the most discussed questions for the common law abiding citizen as well. I am happy to help with either of these if needed as well as the news sponsor list Mr. cotton. Just let me know how I can help.

Re: Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 7:01 am
by Purplehood
canvasbck wrote:You would need to assign a whole team to cover Piers Morgan, I couldn't write fast enough to get it all down.

Sounds like a great idea Chas, I will contribute as often as possible.
That team might double his viewers.