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Written by bigpig
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Saturday, 29 January 2000 |
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Page 1 of 2 From the NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Vol. 7, No. 1 1/7/00
This week, the Media Research Center (MRC) confirmed what the pro-gun community already knew -- when it comes to firearm-related stories, the news coverage on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC is decidedly anti-gun. The MRC study, which examined stories from July 1, 1997, to June 30, 1999, covered 653 morning and evening news stories, and found that...
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From the NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Vol. 7, No. 1 1/7/00
This week, the Media Research Center (MRC) confirmed what the pro-gun community already knew -- when it comes to firearm-related stories, the news coverage on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC is decidedly anti-gun. The MRC study, which examined stories from July 1, 1997, to June 30, 1999, covered 653 morning and evening news stories, and found that:
** Stories promoting gun control outnumbered those opposing gun control 357 to 36, with another 260 stories giving neutral coverage. The stories advocating gun control outpaced those opposing by a ratio of nearly 10 to 1!
** On the evening news, nearly 60% (184) of the stories favored one side. Of those stories taking a side, 89% (164) promoted the anti-gun position, while only 11% (20) supported pro-gun views, a ratio of 8 to 1. The worst in this category were ABC's World News Tonight (43 anti to 3 pro), and CNN's The World Today (50 to 7).
** The morning news coverage was even worse in its bias. Of the 208 morning segments that exhibited bias, 93% (193) promoted an anti-gun message, while six percent (15) presented a pro-gun view, a ratio of 13 to 1. ABC's Good Morning America ran 92 anti-gun segments, and only one pro-gun story.
** Anti-gun sound bites were used twice as often as pro-gun sound bites -- 412 to 209.
** Morning programs with interview segments had more than twice as many anti-gun guests as pro-gun -- 82 to 37.
** Pro-gun themes, like the decline in federal gun prosecutions under the Clinton-Gore Administration, or the success of the ``Project Exile'' prosecution model, received scant coverage, in the single digits, from the 653 stories reviewed.
This is the second analysis of this subject conducted by the MRC. In 1994, MRC released a study that examined evening news programs on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC, that time focusing on the period of December 1, 1991, to November 30, 1993. MRC researchers found that of 107 stories examined, 62% devoted substantially more time to anti-gun arguments than pro-gun, that news commentators who endorsed gun control outnumbered those opposed by nearly 2 to 1, and the anti-gun bias was even more distinct when the story concerned the Brady bill, expanding to 3 to 1 against the pro-gun view. If you would like to see a full copy of the MRC report, you will find links to it through the NRA-ILA's website, at http://www.nraila.org. You can also receive a reprint of Guns, Bias and the Evening News, an article that closely examines MRC's 1994 study, by calling the Grassroots Division at (800) 392-8683.
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