Frontline NRA program to air 1/6/2015

nedsurf · Jan 5, 2015

It looks like the PBS documentary program Frontline is doing a piece on the NRA and it's political clout. They are calling it "Gunned Down". It might be an interesting watch but the title foreshadows it being just a bit of a hit piece. Here is the link to the teaser.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gunned-down/

As a style note, the ominous deep voiced narrator of Frontline, Will Lyman, makes anything sound sinister.

Minuteman · Jan 5, 2015

Good tipper Thx!

I saw a commercial for another documentry from NatGeo about illegal firearms; airs Wednesday I believe. Part of their new series about illegal/banned stuff.

abean4187 · Jan 5, 2015

I doubt this will be anything positive. PBS is probably still pissed about their anti gun poll actually showing that 90% of america is pro gun so they are going to try to demonize the Democrats boogie man, the NRA, some more.

plinkerton · Jan 5, 2015

Minuteman said:
Good tipper Thx!

I saw a commercial for another documentry from NatGeo about illegal firearms; airs Wednesday I believe. Part of their new series about illegal/banned stuff.

I've checked National Geographic TV listings for the rest of the week and can't figure out which show you're referring to. Do you have more details?

Link to channel's TV listings:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/schedule/daily/

swinokur · Jan 5, 2015

It will be just a normal liberal hit piece. Frontline is produced by WGBH, the Boston, MA PBS station. It's coming from the belly of the beast.

What else would you expect.

Rack&Roll · Jan 5, 2015

plinkerton said:
I've checked National Geographic TV listings for the rest of the week and can't figure out which show you're referring to. Do you have more details?

Link to channel's TV listings:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/schedule/daily/

I believe the program referred to is called "Ghost Guns". The home page for the show says it airs Wednesday night at 10pm.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/galleries/ghost-guns/at/137-2089484/

plinkerton · Jan 5, 2015

Rack&Roll said:
I believe the program referred to is called "Ghost Guns". The home page for the show says it airs Wednesday night at 10pm.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/galleries/ghost-guns/at/137-2089484/

An 80% lower hit piece

iH8DemLibz · Jan 5, 2015

Only the military and police should be allowed to own Bridgeport's.

Brooklyn · Jan 5, 2015

Ingnore it.

Everyone else does.

Minuteman · Jan 5, 2015

Rack&Roll said:
I believe the program referred to is called "Ghost Guns". The home page for the show says it airs Wednesday night at 10pm.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/galleries/ghost-guns/at/137-2089484/

Yep, that's it, Thx.

Preview appeared to show an underground of criminals making and selling guns, and other things criminals do with guns.

swinokur · Jan 6, 2015

bump. on tonight

outrider58 · Jan 6, 2015

Minuteman said:
Yep, that's it, Thx.

, and other things criminals do with guns.

swinokur · Jan 7, 2015

Typical left wing hit piece. Not a single mention that mental illness is to blame, not inanmimate objects.They focused on school shootings, then blame the gun loophole and other unrelated issues. Not one mention that all the guns were obtained in other ways.

Why don't they do a special on the National Liquor Dealers Association and blame them for drunk driving deaths?

Same analogy.

nothing to see here,. move along.

ChannelCat · Jan 7, 2015

I was watching Maryland Outdoors last night on MPT, which is one of my favorite programs anywhere. The program was finishing up when an ad came on for the up and coming installment of Frontline.

I heard the letters “NRA”, and it immediately piqued my attention. Without missing a beat, I heard buzz words such as “powerful gun lobby”, “mass shootings” and “assault weapons”. :rolleye12

That 30 second blub was all that I needed to know that is was going to be one sided at best, and a smear job at worse. After I cleaned up the rockfish dinner that I had just barfed up, I switched the channel to something else. I had no intention on watching this program.

Frontline has so much potential, and they are typically very comprehensive and in depth. They do not fabricate and cut and paste as Michael Moore is so infamous for, but they cherry pick their subject matter, and only do stories which bolster the left wing worldview. This episode was no different. A libertarian commentator once noted that Frontline will never do a piece on the defensive uses of firearms my citizens…

swinokur · Jan 7, 2015

Well, they didn't let you down. A left wing hit piece as usual.

Minuteman · Jan 7, 2015

I'm not so sure that they deliberately use the hyperbole language and take the anti position as part of an orchestrated agenda. More likely they hire a bunch of ignorant, non-gun owning people who have already bought into the nearsighted propaganda. I think some of them believe it and think they are moderate, being fair in what and how they report.

Their bias is institutional and deep seated; although founded on nothing more than twisted sensationalism and morbid curiosity. Some of them may be deliberately pushing an agenda, but I think just as many have already drank the cool aid.

Bald Fat Guy · Jan 7, 2015

Actually , back at #14 , that's overly wishful thinking.

Way back when I not only had hair , but before I shaved , I had a light bulb moment.

Upon q handfull of topics upon which I had knowledge , the newspapers and TV getting most of detail seemingly out of thin air , and basically lieing . Thought about it for a cpl of minutes about them being wise , impartial and informative about everything else , and only wrong on the one or two subject where I knew better ? Nah , couldn't be , they're just as incompetent and/ or lieing about everything else.

The media is skilled at *seeming* to be fair and impartial regarding anything the viewer/ reader doesn't know better about , But treat everything with skepticism , and assume that somthing is spun in everything you see.

It's a heck of a thing when "honest media" is only distorting for sensationalism to gain ratings/ circulation , instead of pushing a political agenda. ( Insert the joke about Honest Politicians .)

Brooklyn · Jan 9, 2015

Bald Fat Guy said:
Actually , back at #14 , that's overly wishful thinking.

Way back when I not only had hair , but before I shaved , I had a light bulb moment.

Upon q handfull of topics upon which I had knowledge , the newspapers and TV getting most of detail seemingly out of thin air , and basically lieing . Thought about it for a cpl of minutes about them being wise , impartial and informative about everything else , and only wrong on the one or two subject where I knew better ? Nah , couldn't be , they're just as incompetent and/ or lieing about everything else.

The media is skilled at *seeming* to be fair and impartial regarding anything the viewer/ reader doesn't know better about , But treat everything with skepticism , and assume that somthing is spun in everything you see.

It's a heck of a thing when "honest media" is only distorting for sensationalism to gain ratings/ circulation , instead of pushing a political agenda. ( Insert the joke about Honest Politicians .)

This is key. There is a art to modern propaganda and you must study it. Orwell is but the begining...

It only hard to see if you look for old school propaganda. If you ask why was that word chosen? Why is that quest introduced as an expert, but no credentials are mentioned? Why is that guest introduced first as a Represenative of a group that has nothing to do with the subject at hand?

Why is a paid expert less credible than and unpaid one, even if the unpaid one has a personal motive to lie...

It goes on ...

Its almost funny...

Learn the new ways of propaganda.. they are more subtle but no less effective.

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