Greetings everyone! Time for the Carnival of Cordite! Unfortunately, time is a luxury I don’t have this week. Therefore, this week’s carnival is going to be done in super quick link and go mode. It’s not a slight against contributors

Also if it’s a video interview put a clock in the scene so both your camera and theres will be forced to catch it. Makes it a bit difficult for them to say your’s was modified when there’s blurs or crops it out.

Even with all that I’d not have trusted the major or local media, too much past history of crap like this.

BTW military.com is carrying AP crap which IMHO makes them one with them.

I don’t understand your point about California, sorry.

When legislators are talking about banning or regulating a business’ product

Yet no mention of how that, say, affects business? Like the fact he has refused to business with the state of California since they banned 50 caliber rifles? Just sayin’.

BTW, glad you seem to agree on her forthrightness.

MURFREESBORO — When U.S. soldiers need to penetrate a tank’s armor from a mile away, they count on a weapon that evolved from the garage tinkering of a former wedding photographer.

The .50-caliber rifle created by Ronnie Barrett and sold by his company, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., is the most powerful firearm civilians can buy. It weighs about 30 pounds and can hit targets up to 2,000 yards away with armor-piercing bullets.

That kind of power has drawn a customer base of gun enthusiasts, Hollywood actors and Barrett’s most loyal buyer, the U.S. military, which has been buying Barrett’s rifles since the 1980s and using them in combat from the 1991 Gulf War to the present.

The fact that the story omitted that Barrett is being featured by the Discovery Channel… yawn. I don’t really see that as a big deal to make a fuss over.

When legislators are talking about banning or regulating a business’ product, I don’t see how you can draw a clear distinction between “political” story and a business story. Would a business story on the Philip Morris in 2000 have been fair or honest if it omitted the huge political/legal challenges facing the company?

I’m not totally defending the reporter here, especially if she told Goodwin the article would just have a “brief” description of legislative issues. (We don’t know French’s side of the story, however) But you always try to be up-front and forthright with people; she should have made it clear that the story would quote Barrett’s critics.

Still, Goodwin’s email seems just unbelievably naive, especially for a media relations manager. Of course she wasn’t going to give him a copy of the story for review … that’s a huge journalistic no-no, something she might even be fired for doing.

TANSTAFL

Too, don’t be too quick to blame the reporter. She may have written two thousand words, of which the “layers of editors and fact-checkers” the MSM claims may have selected less than half to print. Likely not, but possible.

I like that, very accurate. =P

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/249813_biggun26.html

The editor inserted notes on corrections, but the corrections themselves leave a lot to be desired. Still a hit job.

The AP editors can get away with saying that they know nothing about firearms, and so couldn’t spot the bad information (and bad faith) from their reporter. Military.com has no such excuse. Fortunately, they do have the Military.com forums…

What should we citizens do as a result of all of this? One thing would be getting the AP to issue a real correction. They issued a partial one (also at Say Uncle). Wanna bet it gets even half the publicity the original story did? Right. The second thin…

Ms. French reassured me mention of legislative issues would be brief and “it’s mostly going to be a business feature.”

Um…she definitely misrepresented this.

Secondly, a reporter NEEDS to know what they are writing about when they write an article on something. At the very least do a good job of learning. I think Michael Marks takes the “journalist” to task on this.

Great logic, pal.

I can cross this blog off my list.

Mr. Jarvis,

Not sure if you have seen this report yet, but it would be interesting
to hear your opinions of whether this AP reporter acted in an ethical
manner or not and what the appropriate response of an organization
like the AP ought to be.

AP’s Rose French lied to Barrett Rifles about the type of story she was going to do and AP had to print a retraction

SayUncle provides further proof that journalists need to know at least something about a subject BEFORE they write about it AND that bloggers will eat them alive if they misrepresent their intentions in doing a story. Who gets put on…

I’ve linked several times to Radley Balko’s post on “The Conservative Left”, because its a great meme, but the specific example that Radley used is worth repeating:You know, you sometimes get the feeling the day after the polio vaccine was…

Say Uncle is reporting that the Ass. Press has resorted to unethical journalistic methods in doing a .50 Caliber hit piece. I’m shocked, I say, shocked!…

So, tell me. Did you get lucky?

FYI, your Michael Marks link is broken–would love to read his item.