This week Politico is running a predictably framed piece on how a number of crises have pounced on President Biden:
Biden took office facing an historic convergence of crises.
Since then, the list has only grown — and he now faces the grimmest one yet. https://t.co/7wUh1X2TJ9
— POLITICO (@politico) May 25, 2022
Within that article is yet another reason why nobody should take media reporting about guns at face value.
You won’t be surprised to know that the Politico piece contains an inaccuracy:
"Toting an automatic weapon".
C'mon, man. pic.twitter.com/UlSO7LrPKs
— Tom Maguire (@Tom_Maguire) May 26, 2022
Nobody on staff actually knows anything about guns apparently.
— BillHobson (@BillHobson1) May 26, 2022
Or maybe they just don’t care about accuracy.
"Toting an automatic weapon . . ."
It really is too much to ask apparently for journalists to have even a rudimentary understanding of firearms. https://t.co/PeSkMp19Sd
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 26, 2022
It’s not as if anybody was expecting the media to be remotely accurate in their reporting, but come on.
In case they get around to changing it. pic.twitter.com/KZmLitD2Fq
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 26, 2022
It’s been a whole day and Politico still hasn’t corrected their erroneous claim that the shooter had an automatic weapon https://t.co/8D6xOkDds5 pic.twitter.com/NEldKbjWMD
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) May 26, 2022
So much “journalism.”
'Toting an automatic weapon' is the @JonLemire stupidity on full display. https://t.co/JeFC3okjnK
— Bourbon Buster (@AngryPanda847) May 26, 2022
As of now, the Politico report still says the Texas school shooter was “toting an automatic weapon”:
Toting an automatic weapon, an 18-year-old suspect killed 21 people, with several more remaining hospitalized. He carried more firepower than the first officers who attempted to block him and was only stopped and slain when a police tactical unit arrived.
The motive for the killing, to this point, remains unknown. But coming on the heels of the mass shooting of 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., by a white supremacist, it has refocused the national debate on guns.
“Journalists” instinctively going with the Left’s narrative about everything isn’t confined to the topic of guns:
Replace "firearms" with "anything" and you're closer to the truth
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) May 26, 2022
So very true.
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