The Truth Is a Moral Imperative:
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Dear FAIR friends,
Last month, our country witnessed two mass shootings. Lazy reliance on police reports and morbid obsession with the perpetrator shrouded reports of the murder of eight people in Asian-owned spas in Atlanta. And in response to the Colorado shooting that killed 10, the media reverted to its typical back-and-forth over gun control.
But FAIR’s critique and reporting worked to set the record straight:
Atlanta Murders Reporting Relied on Law Enforcement Narratives
Diana Lu, Michelle Pham and Kim Dela Cruz spotlighted the initial media response of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings that killed eight people — six of them Asian women. They noted that coverage focused primarily on the gunman’s story and police statements, linked the targeted businesses to sex work with insubstantial documentation, and struggled to identify if and how race and gender motivated the gunman.
CounterSpin: ‘Where There Are More Guns, There Are More Gun Deaths’
Igor Volsky, executive director of Guns Down America and author of the book Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future With Fewer Guns, talked with FAIR’s Janine Jackson about the false dichotomy corporate media create between effective gun regulation and the Second Amendment.
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