Little-Acorn
04-25-2007, 12:09 PM
Apparently, shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings, ABC News put up a poll about guns and their "responsibility" for what Cho had done.
Looks like the results weren't quite what ABC had hoped. So, did they report this news?
Read on.
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***Media Research Center CyberAlert***
10:55am EDT, Wednesday April 25, 2007 (Vol. Twelve; No. 70)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070425.asp
You read it here first. Matching a CyberAlert item, FNC's Brit Hume reported, in his Tuesday "Grapevine" segment, how "ABC devoted nearly two minutes," during Monday's World News to a new ABC News poll on guns, "but never mentioned one of the most interesting results. When asked the primary source of gun violence, 40 percent said popular culture, and 35 percent said the way parents raise their children. Only 18 percent blamed the availability of guns."
The April 24 CyberAlert recounted:
ABC News polling chief Gary Langer, in a posting buried on ABCNews.com, revealed that a poll taken Sunday discovered that when "asked the primary cause of gun violence, far more Americans blamed the effects of popular culture (40 percent) or the way parents raise their children (35 percent) than the availability of guns (18 percent)." ABC's World News on Monday devoted nearly two minutes to results of ABC's survey, but didn't get to that finding which shows the public does not share the media assumption that gun availability is to blame for the murders at Virginia Tech.
Although George Stephanopoulos did point out how "a strong majority of Americans, 52 to 29, prefer enforcing existing laws to passing new laws," anchor Charles Gibson led with a widely-held view, how "a new ABC News poll finds 83 percent of Americans say states should do more to report mentally ill people to the federal gun sales registry." He went how to highlight that "61 percent of the people in this country say they favor stronger gun control laws, although people are split right down the middle as to whether stricter gun control laws would actually curb any kind of violence..."
Hume's first "Grapevine" item on the April 24 Special Report with Brit
Hume:
"If you're wondering why the apparent popular support for gun control does not seem to translate into legislative action, there is ample illustration in the latest ABC News poll taken after the Virginia Tech shootings. 61 percent of the respondents said they favor stronger gun control laws, but as to whether they would do any good, 49 percent said yes, 50 percent said no. And by a 52-to-29 margin, respondents said they prefer enforcing existing gun laws to passing new ones. ABC devoted nearly two minutes to the poll during last night's evening newscast -- but never mentioned one of the most interesting results. When asked the primary source of gun violence, 40 percent said popular culture, and 35 percent said the way parents raise their children. Only 18 percent blamed the availability of guns."
Looks like the results weren't quite what ABC had hoped. So, did they report this news?
Read on.
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***Media Research Center CyberAlert***
10:55am EDT, Wednesday April 25, 2007 (Vol. Twelve; No. 70)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070425.asp
You read it here first. Matching a CyberAlert item, FNC's Brit Hume reported, in his Tuesday "Grapevine" segment, how "ABC devoted nearly two minutes," during Monday's World News to a new ABC News poll on guns, "but never mentioned one of the most interesting results. When asked the primary source of gun violence, 40 percent said popular culture, and 35 percent said the way parents raise their children. Only 18 percent blamed the availability of guns."
The April 24 CyberAlert recounted:
ABC News polling chief Gary Langer, in a posting buried on ABCNews.com, revealed that a poll taken Sunday discovered that when "asked the primary cause of gun violence, far more Americans blamed the effects of popular culture (40 percent) or the way parents raise their children (35 percent) than the availability of guns (18 percent)." ABC's World News on Monday devoted nearly two minutes to results of ABC's survey, but didn't get to that finding which shows the public does not share the media assumption that gun availability is to blame for the murders at Virginia Tech.
Although George Stephanopoulos did point out how "a strong majority of Americans, 52 to 29, prefer enforcing existing laws to passing new laws," anchor Charles Gibson led with a widely-held view, how "a new ABC News poll finds 83 percent of Americans say states should do more to report mentally ill people to the federal gun sales registry." He went how to highlight that "61 percent of the people in this country say they favor stronger gun control laws, although people are split right down the middle as to whether stricter gun control laws would actually curb any kind of violence..."
Hume's first "Grapevine" item on the April 24 Special Report with Brit
Hume:
"If you're wondering why the apparent popular support for gun control does not seem to translate into legislative action, there is ample illustration in the latest ABC News poll taken after the Virginia Tech shootings. 61 percent of the respondents said they favor stronger gun control laws, but as to whether they would do any good, 49 percent said yes, 50 percent said no. And by a 52-to-29 margin, respondents said they prefer enforcing existing gun laws to passing new ones. ABC devoted nearly two minutes to the poll during last night's evening newscast -- but never mentioned one of the most interesting results. When asked the primary source of gun violence, 40 percent said popular culture, and 35 percent said the way parents raise their children. Only 18 percent blamed the availability of guns."