Print journalism is pretty simple, really. At least it used to be. For decades there were basically two types of stories, news and opinion. Reporters wrote news stories. Columnists and a few others wrote opinion pieces.
But in recent years we’ve seen another type of journalism rise in prominence, the anti-gun story, which masquerades as a regular news piece but is chock-full of opinion and false claims. When reporters fill their anti-gun stories with their opinions their editors do nothing, because they often share their staffer’s opinions.
During my 20 years as a newspaperman, I would call out the authors of anti-gun stories whenever I saw them, but my criticisms were usually never addressed, even though we have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Nowadays, journalists talk constantly about the accuracy of their reporting. However, when they write anti-gun stories, the normal journalism standards are gone, and the editing is a complete joke. The size of the newspaper also makes a difference. Smaller newspapers are generally more accurate when writing about guns than the big ones.
Case in point: The New York Times.
On Monday, the Times published what is perhaps the most anti-gun news story seen in years. It was written by reporter Glenn Thrush, who started at the newspaper in 2017 and claimed in his bio that his most “fulfilling assignment” was writing obituaries, which is odd. Writing about the recently departed is far from fulfilling.
Thrush’s story was titled “Trump Administration to Roll Back Array of Gun Control Measures.” The array was described as a reversal of the strict gun control rules Joe Biden ordered “to stem the flood of unregulated semiautomatic handguns and rifles.”
If you look closely at Thrush’s story, you will find factual errors and anti-gun hyperbole in nearly every paragraph. For example, Thrush wrote that gun dealers stripped of their federal firearm licenses by Biden’s crazy zero-tolerance policy were “found to have repeatedly violated federal laws and regulations.”
That is far from the truth.
Biden’s insane policy stripped hundreds of gun dealers of their FFL’s solely because of extremely minor clerical errors. It’s estimated to have increased the FFL revocation rate by 700 percent. Thrush never mentioned that, or that the ATF occasionally sent its poorly trained SWAT team to the gun dealers’ homes. Or that the dealers were handcuffed and laying on their stomachs during their conversations with the ATF.
In one case, the alleged suspect never got the chance to respond to any of the feds’ allegations because ATF’s SWAT team shot and killed him in his own home before they had a chance to talk.
Thrush wasn’t kind to Attorney General Pam Bondi or her plan to use the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to investigate the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to determine whether it is “engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights.”
Even though investigating civil rights violations is clearly covered by federal law, Thrush claimed that Bondi was “repurposing an investigative unit that had been used to expose racial discrimination and police violence by local enforcement agencies.” Bondi’s decision didn’t involve any “repurposing.” The federal laws that govern the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division are very clear, unlike the rules governing Biden’s weaponized ATF.
The author spoke to the clownish executive director of Giffords, who falsely claimed Trump gave his seal of approval to “reckless dealers who are willing to sell guns to traffickers and criminals.” Over the years I have met more than a few gun dealers, but no one who was willing to sell arms to anyone with a criminal record. That this claim actually made it into a New York Times story is incredibly damning.
Thrush also claimed that the ATF took “an abrupt U-turn” from enforcing the anti-gun schemes of Biden and the former ATF director to “stem the flood of unregulated semiautomatic handguns and rifles that have contributed to mass shootings and exacerbated the violent crime wave that peaked after the coronavirus pandemic.”
A flood of unregulated handguns and rifles?
Remember that the next time you fill out an ATF Form 4473.
Bidens media propaganda.
*Left wing propaganda. Biden was a bit player.
Yeah, after I had posted that I realized there are more fingers in the pie then just Bidens.
Trump gets it right:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/YdhXRACHsPI
The Gray Lady is out today with a massive fluff piece on why we should feel bad for the harm Trumps tariffs may cause to those poor Chinese factories.
In only a few years the NYT went from “your iPhone was built by slaves” to “we must save the slaves jobs.”
People should’ve put that rag down back when they were reporting on the comfy conditions of Nazi concentration camps that were only there to protect the Jews.
Their reporting has only gotten worse.
What is even more amazing is how many people continue to follow the NYT, CNN, NBC, et al after their blatant propaganda. Trust is so low in news media that their consumers are now mostly looking for bias confirmation. However, the legacy media still has power. They still set the national conversation. They still create so much background noise that the normies will hear enough to be open to that constructed reality.
…exacerbated the violent crime wave that peaked after the coronavirus pandemic.
Does he mean the violent crime wave that was so predictable that I predicted it immediately after the St. George Floyd incident? At the time, I said we know how this ends. It’s called the Ferguson Effect.
Democrats manipulated the population by not releasing the full George Floyd police interaction. They weren’t trying to kill him. They were putting him in the car, and George wasn’t having it. George said he couldn’t breathe before there was a knee on his neck. George said he ate too many drugs. He ended up having about 4x the fatal level of fentanyl in his system when he died. If I’m applying a choke, it won’t take you nearly 10 minutes to lose consciousness. It will take seconds. But people are ignorant and stupid. They’re easily manipulated.
The 2020 Summer of Love was only part of the color revolution being waged against America. Then Democrats elected soft on crime Soros prosecutors nationwide. Many more black men died as a result. It had nothing to do with FFLs. But people are easily manipulated by propaganda.
…exacerbated the violent crime wave that peaked after the coronavirus pandemic.
Does he mean the violent crime wave that was so predictable that I predicted it immediately after the St. George Floyd incident? At the time, I said we know how this ends. It’s called the Ferguson Effect.
Democrats manipulated the population by not releasing the full George Floyd police interaction. They weren’t trying to k-i-l-l him. They were putting him in the car, and George wasn’t having it. George said he couldn’t breathe before there was a knee on his neck. George said he ate too many d-r-u-g-s. He ended up having about 4x the fatal level of fentanyl in his system when he died. If I’m applying a choke, it won’t take you nearly 10 minutes to lose consciousness. It will take seconds. But people are ignorant and stupid. They’re easily manipulated.
The 2020 Summer of Love was only part of the color revolution being waged against America. Then Democrats elected soft on crime Soros prosecutors nationwide. Many more black men died as a result. It had nothing to do with FFLs. But people are easily manipulated by propaganda.
“If I’m applying a choke, it won’t take you nearly 10 minutes to lose consciousness. It will take seconds“
The actual medical experts disagree with your diagnosis:
“Because of the restraint and his position, she said, Floyd was “unable to get enough oxygen in” to support his body’s functions.
“There’s no evidence,” she said, “to suggest he would have died that night except for the interactions with law enforcement.”
Thomas’ testimony aligned with a pulmonary critical care doctor who testified on Thursday that Floyd died from a “low level of oxygen” when Chauvin pinned him to the street with his knee, restricting Floyd’s ability to breathe.
Floyd’s preexisting health conditions and drug use were not relevant to his death, Dr. Martin Tobin said.
“A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died,” he said.“
But your statement is very revealing:
“If I’m applying a choke… “
It seems you are a very violent person, exactly how many people have you choked into unconsciousness?
No, “the” medical experts don’t disagree with me. The medical experts you choose to listen to lie. You’re referring to the expert that was hired by Floyd’s family.
Per the medical examiner (see official document link), Floyd had a “fatal level of fentanyl.” He also had meth in his system. He also had severe heart disease. He also tested positive for Covid. Combine all of that with the fight or flight response of the arrest (Floyd resisted arrest) and you have a deadly combination. Floyd would have died even if he complied because he had nearly FOUR TIMES THE FATAL DOSE OF FENTANYL.
AB said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.
https://www.mncourts.gov/getattachment/Media/StateofMinnesotavTouThao/Container-Documents/Content-Documents/Exhibit-4.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US
Floyd’s swollen lungs also weighed 2-3x their normal weight from fluid accumulation caused by the drug toxicity, not physical trauma. Speaking of physical trauma, the first, official autopsy explicitly stated that there were no “life-threatening injuries identified,” including no bruising on the neck. All of this, and more, is old news. The facts have been out there for nearly five years, and you’re still wallowing in ignorance. That is your choice.
“It seems you are a very violent person, exactly how many people have you choked into unconsciousness?”
Learning how to submit someone means you’re violent? Does learning how to shoot someone mean that you’re a very violent person, Miner? FYI, you can tell when the choke is locked in and you’re about to go. You try to use all of your available time to escape, run out the clock, hope the hold loosens, etc. You tap at the last second to avoid going unconscious.
*I have double posts above because the first one went to moderation. The second one avoided naughty words. That comment was approved quickly, unlike that other place.
Reply awaiting moderation.
And the article has wandered back into believing propaganda Mynr49r.
Dude just explained how it works and you confirmed it with your reply to him.
How many people have I choked into unconsciousnes. ( Sleeper holds) Around 15, and around 6 – 8 seconds to pass out time . To kill them dead, never have, but I’d guess a whole lot less then 10minutes.
It’s why the referee jumps in so fast when you apply a sleeper hold.
I should have looked that up before posting. How long can your brain be deprived of oxygen before death.
Thanks for your input!
Regarding the question of how long a brain deprived of oxygen can survive:
“According to the University of California, Santa Barbara’s UCSB ScienceLine website, the brain can withstand three to six minutes without oxygen before brain death”
But we need to have an actual comparison here, a correctly applied chokehold is far different from the knee on neck technique employed by the LEO in the Floyd case.
It’s clear that if it wasn’t a total shut-off of oxygenated blood to the brain, but a partial occlusion, survival might be extended several minutes until total unconsciousness and death.
In any case, experienced medical professionals conducted an actual autopsy and made a rulint, why Randos on the Internet feel they are more competent to determine cause of death is interesting.
Yet you selectively ignore the experienced medical professionals that you don’t agree with. You’re siding with the examiner for hire. Then there is the documented intimidation to come up with predetermined conclusions. This is no different than the very unscientific “follow the science” mantra that the left mindlessly repeats as they ignore data that is inconvenient to the narrative, and as they cheer for the censorship of any dissenting voice.
One does not have to be violent to know how to use a chokehold. Do you know how to cut a chicken up for cooking? If you do, it means you could do the same for a person.
It is tragic the man died. His actions contributed to his own death. Had he not been committing a crime, he would not have been in that position. Had he not swallowed a crapload of drugs, maybe he would have had a better thought process? Sometimes the choices you make resulted in bad outcomes. Personal responsibility can be tough.
Also, had he complied with officer’s commands, he would have been treated differently. At the time of an arrest is not the time to argue with the officers. Compliance is the best and safest policy and response until such time an argument can be presented. It is like the words “drop” and “stop” are a foreign language
He only swallowed that many drugs because the cops showed up. He was getting rid of the evidence. He knew he had OD’d. He literally said, “I ate too many drugs.” He was saying he couldn’t breathe before the knee was ever on his neck in that official, police department-taught holding technique. Democrats hid the full video evidence until the revolution was fully underway. Had he not had any drugs on him/in him, he probably wouldn’t have died that day. However, there’s a good chance he would still be dead by now due to his long documented history of bad/risky behavior. He was busted for drug dealing two decades before this incident. That was his life. Live by the drugs, die by the drugs.
He only swallowed that many d-r-u-g-s because the cops showed up. He was getting rid of the evidence. He knew he had OD’d. He literally said, “I ate too many d-r-u-g-s.” He was saying he couldn’t breathe before the knee was ever on his neck in that official, police department-taught holding technique. Democrats hid the full video evidence until the revolution was fully underway. Had he not had any d-r-u-g-s on him/in him, he probably wouldn’t have died that day. However, there’s a good chance he would still be dead by now due to his long documented history of bad/risky behavior. He was busted for d-r-u-g dealing two decades before this incident. That was his life. Live by the d-r-u-g-s, die by the d-r-u-g-s.
“One does not have to be violent to know how to use a chokehold“
He was not in a chokehold.
Your inability to grasp the actual facts of the situation explain why your conclusion is at odds with the trained medical professionals who actually conducted an autopsy.
Wow, Miner. He’s obviously responding to your comment calling me violent. Get it together, man.
Floyd died of an overdose much as your critical thinking died from acceptance of propaganda. Go get your snake oil (venom) booster
Miner, look at your post I replied too for full context of my reply.
You made an allegation towards another about chokehold.
Your reply will show me your character.
“…and claimed in his bio that his most “fulfilling assignment” was writing obituaries…”
left-wing ghoul.
“Thrush never mentioned that, or that the ATF occasionally sent its poorly trained SWAT team to the gun dealers’ homes. Or that the dealers were handcuffed and laying on their stomachs during their conversations with the ATF.”
…or at ATF gun point or their family members at gun point with the ATF threatening to shoot them if they didn’t surrender their license. No crime committed, no arrest warrant, rarely a search warrant yet nothing found. These are the ‘revocations’ the anti-gun and Thrush cheer also – forced license surrender by use of deadly force, and then branding them ‘rogue gun dealers who sold guns to criminals’ to perpetuate their lies. And for what? ‘Cause the ATF said’ and maybe minor clerical errors.
So you better watch out, if you accidentally misspelled something or mis-shaped a letter, or did nothing at all wrong… ’cause evidently the Biden-Harris government could have just shot you and family if Biden or Kamala was in office and call it ‘a threat to democracy cause misinformation cause we say so’ and all the left-wingers would cheer about how Biden or Kamala was protecting ‘democracy’ from ‘extremism MAGA’ ’cause they say so. Ya know, Biden-Harris tyranny, just like Hitler did to those innocent people he didn’t like.
ca ya get rid of this ‘jalalive’ character. He posts some comment as a means to post his user name which has a link to a foreign web site of questionable origin and purpos, that can ‘install malware like stuff’ in the background. He did it in other comment sections too with different links.
“The Media are the enemy of the people” said President Donald Trump in his first term. And he is absolutely correct. It was about time somebody said it. Because the news does not support civil rights. They support rights for themselves but not for anyone else. Certainly not for the people they don’t like.
Fortunately alternative media starting with Rush Limbaugh/talk radio, and now with the Internet, allows the truth and other opinions, to get out that are not controlled by the “dinosaur” media.
Now Chuck Todds on record saying yes, the media lied about Biden to hurt Trump.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1910115531585396792
These people have to push their agendas and causes in all their reporting because, in their minds, not doing so would be a disservice.
They’re unethical and immoral because they threw out objective morality decades ago. The commie/Marxist/so_shall_list/progressive’s morality in a nutshell: the end justifies the means.
“The Media are the enemy of the people” said President Donald Trump in his first term“
Yes, Donald has learned his lessons well, employing the tried and true techniques of another dictator:
From “Mein Kampf,” 1925:
“It is in the paramount interest of the State and the nation to prevent these people (newspaper readers) from falling into the hands of evil, ignorant, or even malevolent educators. The State … has the duty to supervise (the public’s) education and to prevent any nuisance. Therefore, it has to watch especially the press, for its influence is by far the strongest and most penetrating on these people.”
I believe the term his supporters use is ‘Lugenpresse’.
You just explained why the fascist left owns the msm. And why it is important to get the fed.gov, at the very least, out of education.
It is also why the fascist left employs chaos agents, like yourself, miner, to attempt to disrupt and destroy sited like these.
“the fascist left employs chaos agents, like yourself“
Another of your false claims, asserting facts not in evidence.
As I’ve said before, it is my sense of civic duty that leads me to post factual information on this forum.
“As I’ve said before, it is my sense of civic duty that leads me to post factual information on this forum.”
Miner49er, If that statement of yours wasn’t so hilarious and like ‘you must be on acid’ and mentally ill stupid, I’d take the time to post some of your various posts which show that statement to be false.
Pull the other one. It has bells.
Commie not liking being called out for being a commie, news at 11
Because the news media tries to be open and honest? Provably false.
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“…exactly how many people have you choked into unconsciousness?”
your mom.