Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, Visits a Gun Manufacturer
Since when is a few thousand views called going viral? It's not. But in the world of the gun-rights fanatic, where they twist everything they can to aggrandize guns and their popularity, calling a pro-gun video viral when it's not is SOP.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Mikeb, why do you have to be silly? That's a news anchor saying it. Are you claiming that we've won over the media?
ReplyDeleteIn many cases you have. How else do we explain the passive voice being the preferred way of describing a negligent discharge?
DeleteDon't you have your contentious slippers on right now? I thought for sure you'd tell us how a couple thousand hits can be considered going viral.
My contentious slippers? What the hell are those? The media typically are a bunch of mealy mouthed blow up dolls that are too afraid of being sued to do their jobs. At present, I can't see them as being on any side, other than that of their paychecks.
DeleteHow many times do have to tell you that "negligence" is determined by an investigation, not a report of the facts. It doesn't matter how obvious it looks, they can only report on the verifiable facts. It's called "journalistic integrity". I know this is your blog, so you pratice wildly fleshing things out, but you shouldn't tell reporters how to do their job, especially when it will get them fired.
DeleteC'mon, TS. Mike's only doing the same thing for Journolists that our illustrious Vice President did for Gun Owners. Of course, following Mikes advice will only get the journolists fired. Following Joltin' Joes advice will get you arrested. But close enough, right Mike?
DeleteWe explain it as being like the use of passive voice in other news stories--"the vehicle entered oncoming traffic," etc.
DeleteBullshit, all of you. When they say, while the parents were drinking beer and watching professional wrestling in the trailer, the boys were playing with a gun and it went off, they are downplaying the human negligence that caused it to go off. The honest rendering would be one of the boys unintentionally fired the gun by putting his fat finger on the fucking trigger.
DeleteGet it.
Mikeb, do you comprehend the effect that frivolous law suits have on news agencies? They don't want to get sued for saying something that they can't back up with facts, and you're not going to pay for their lawyers if they follow your suggestions.
DeleteWhat? How is that downplaying negligence if they expressly say the kids were unsupervised?
DeleteBut here, Mike, let’s look at a non-gun case. Do you remember the scare a few years back about unintended Prius acceleration? NHTSA later came out and said they found no mechanical/programming issue and these were likely cases of driver error. But read this report of an incident (later determined after an investigation to be a hoax).
http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-prius-unintended-acceleration-san-diego.html
Did the reporter keep it to the facts? If not a known fact, did he use phrases such as “reported to be” and “the driver claims…”? Or did the reporter say this was a case of an idiot putting his fat foot on the fucking gas instead of the brake?
Get it?
Fine, Greg, if they word it like that to avoid lawsuits, I don't see how that helps really, it still plays into your hands. The irony is that by downplaying the human negligence and using the passive voice - the gun went off - they are giving power to the gun that it doesn't have. This is what you accuse our side of doing, but actually it's your side that benefits from the inaccurate reporting.
DeleteMikeb, no one benefits from mealy-mouthed reporting, other than advertizers. But you were quibbling about what a viral video is, not about a gun "going off."
Delete