Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts) Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:25 PM Jan 2015

"...will defend to the death your right to agree with them"; or: Just plain hypocrisy

http://csgv.org/action/tell-wttg-general-manager-patrick-paolini-fire-emily-miller/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=csgv&utm_content=1+-+Click+here+to+tell+WTTG+General+Manager+&utm_campaign=EmilyMillerCampaign&source=EmilyMillerCampaign

Tell WTTG General Manager Patrick Paolini: Fire Emily Miller

In its Code of Ethics, the Society of Professional Journalists states that journalists should “act independently” by avoiding “conflicts of interest, real or perceived” and “political…activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality.”1

By this standard, Emily Miller has no business being the Chief Investigative Reporter for WTTG, the Fox affiliate for Washington, D.C...

This is the behavior of an activist and pundit, not a journalist. Given her record, D.C. residents can’t trust that Miller will provide objective coverage on matters of concern to their city. If WTTG is at all concerned with journalistic integrity, it is time for them part ways with her.

Tell WTTG General Manager Patrick Paolini: Fire Emily Miller.

This is getting support at DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12627928

I wonder how that sort would have reacted if David Gregory
had been canned immediately after his little stunt:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22David+Gregory%22+magazine&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

Or the journalists going to this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172158915

http://dartcenter.org/content/apply-now-southwest-workshop-on-covering-guns-gun-violence

Apply Now: Covering Gun Violence

The Dart Center is offering a two-day workshop for journalists on covering guns and gun violence, April 17-18, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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To help journalists and news organizations in the Southwest improve their reporting on guns and gun violence, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School is organizing a two-day regional workshop April 17 and 18, 2015 for reporters, editors, news directors, photographers, producers, and bloggers. The workshop, funded by Everytown for Gun Safety, will offer independent expert briefings and specialized reporting skills training to enhance the practical ability of journalists to report on guns and gun violence knowledgeably, ethically and effectively. The workshop will cover such topics as state and federal gun laws; patterns of gun sales and gun trafficking; national trends and polling; education and prevention initiatives; social, economic and public health impacts; and special populations (e.g. children and youth, women and returning veterans.)

Speakers include national public health and policy experts; researchers and clinicians; award-winning journalists, and prevention advocates and survivors.

The workshop will:

* Serve as a forum for improving journalists’ knowledge of guns and gun violence, and the implications of public policies like background check requirements

*Explore new research, reporting ideas and best practices with leading public health and policy experts

*Confront challenges — and identify opportunities — that exist for local journalists pursuing these stories with limited resources

*Provide practical tools to enable journalists to successfully produce meaningful stories on guns and gun violence.

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"...will defend to the death your right to agree with them"; or: Just plain hypocrisy (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 OP

Those who reject the right to self defense have a disturbing propensity for disregarding other Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #1

Emily Miller and David Gregory are far different types of media people. alp227 Jan 2015 #2

What about that justifies the grabbers demanding Miller lose who job? Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #4

These days, I wouldn't hire Miller to edit the local police blotter friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 #6

The whining never ends from 2A regressives. ileus Jan 2015 #3

Those that support the reinstatement of the AWB are 2a regressives. kcci Jan 2015 #5

I think this is more a bid by CSGV to regain some street cred among Prohibitionists... friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 #7

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

1. Those who reject the right to self defense have a disturbing propensity for disregarding other

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:45 AM

Jan 2015

rights as well.

The nobody-wants-to-take-your-guns canard has already been shown time and again to be hollow duplicity, the balance of their conduct demonstrates any other assurances to safeguard other rights are probably just as worthless.

alp227

(32,052 posts)

2. Emily Miller and David Gregory are far different types of media people.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:43 AM

Jan 2015

Miller delivers opinions, while Gregory (as much as he's bad at doing it) goes for the facts. If Miller wants to opine on current events, she should do so as a pundit/analyst/whatever you wanna call it, not "investigative reporter".

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

4. What about that justifies the grabbers demanding Miller lose who job?

Reply to alp227 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 08:01 AM

Jan 2015

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

6. These days, I wouldn't hire Miller to edit the local police blotter

Reply to alp227 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 05:43 PM

Jan 2015

The stuff she produced while at the Washington Times had some merit, but her latest
output strikes me as somewhat unhinged, frankly...

ileus

(15,396 posts)

3. The whining never ends from 2A regressives.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 07:52 AM

Jan 2015

It's fox....do they really think fox gives a flying fuddernut about a handful of "gun are mean" goons???

kcci

(35 posts)

5. Those that support the reinstatement of the AWB are 2a regressives.

Reply to ileus (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 04:03 PM

Jan 2015

If you want to use words correctly, at least.

"Regressive-Tending to return or revert to a previous state."

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

7. I think this is more a bid by CSGV to regain some street cred among Prohibitionists...

Reply to ileus (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 05:50 PM

Jan 2015

...than a serious attempt to get Miller fired.

Ever since Big Mike Bloomberg rolled into town with his large bank account (and even larger ego),
the old-line gun ban orgs aren't getting the attention that they used to. This is CSGV's way
of saying "See, we're still here!"

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