Friday, January 26, 2001
A study by the Media Research Center (MRC) documents the palpable anti-gun bias of the major television networks in reporting firearm-related news. Released last year, the study examined 653 morning and evening news stories from July 1, 1997, to June 30, 1999, and found that stories advocating gun control on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC outpaced those opposing by a ratio of nearly 10 to 1. It also showed that the bias advocating more restrictions on law-abiding gun owners is accompanied by an apparent unwillingness to cover stories that the pro-Second Amendment community would like to see.
Friday, January 19, 2001
Last week, we told you about the attacks by gun-ban extremists on President-elect George W. Bush`s nominee for Attorney General, former U.S. Senator John Ashcroft (R-Mo.). Now, Gale Norton, Bush`s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, faces similar attacks. Throughout her career that includes two terms as Colorado`s Attorney General, Norton has supported the interests of hunters and law-abiding firearm owners, and now is the time to come to her aid. She is under heavy fire by radical "environmentalist" groups—which have launched a series of attack ads in major media centers and in states where they feel senators are undecided on Norton—as well as other groups not known for being involved with environmental issues, such as the NAACP and the AFL-CIO. What does unite these groups is that most of them did everything they could last year to defeat President-elect Bush on November 7. Many look at the campaign to oppose Gale Norton`s confirmation by the U.S. Senate as nothing more than another attack on Bush by supporters of Al Gore. Norton`s nomination hearing before the Senate began Thursday, and a vote by the Senate will come in the near future.
Tuesday, September 5, 2000
What follows on the next page of this Special FAX Alert is the text of a letter from the Department of Justice to an NRA member. The letter is also posted on www.NRAILA.org.
