WashPost Leaves Out That Gun/Suicide Study Funded by Anti-Gun Foundati
April 16th, 2007 11:27 AM
Update at bottom of page.Harvard researcher Matthew Miller released a study on April 10 that ties higher suicide rates with higher rates of firearm ownership. Six days later the Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam printed a five-paragraph brief in the paper's "Science Notebook" that cribbed heavily from the Harvard School of Public Health press release. Yet nowhere in his story was the fact that…
Post Columnist Insults D.C. Residents, Gun-Owners as 'Children
March 14th, 2007 1:20 PM
Thomas Sowell, are you reading? I've got a new chapter for your book "The Vision of the Anointed: Self Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy."Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy condescended to the great unwashed of the District of Columbia in his March 14 column as he dismissed the desire to exercise one's 2nd Amendment rights as lethal childishness. Milloy was reacting to a…
WashPost Buries Lede on DC Gun Ban Story
March 11th, 2007 8:47 PM
In the March 11 Washington Post, staff writers Elissa Silverman and Allison Klein took a look at the men and women behind a legal challenge to the Washington, D.C., handgun ban. But in doing so, it seems they buried the lede.Information on one plaintiff came near the end of Silverman and Klein's 25-paragraph story:Dick Heller, 65, said he became involved in the firearms debate in 1997 after he…
