Documenting and responding to media bias and lies

[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.

[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.

[Superman]

Sign me up.

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

[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"

[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.

[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.

[Topbuilder]

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.

[G26ster]

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.

[Stupid]

How do we get sponsor's email?

[K.Mooneyham]

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.

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?

[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.

[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?

[G26ster]

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.

[Wes]

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.

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.

[Purplehood]

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.