Re: BIAS: CNN commits fraud, rewrites history, WAS: RE: "liberal media"

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 18:10:06 MDT

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    I finally found a transcript of the Wayne LaPierre interview from
    Friday night. Rather than breaking segments of a large program up into
    multiple transcripts as they usually do, they bulked the whole program
    into one transcript, then didn't mention the LaPierre segment in the
    contents list at the top of the page or on the list of the days
    programming. This is a more insidious form of censorship, a
    misdirection or 'hide in plain sight' technique of propganda.

    It was from the "Wolf Blitzer Presents" show, hosted that evening by
    Kyra Phillips. Anyway, here it is:

    (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

    PHILLIPS: Viewers are speaking out on a segment we aired yesterday
    concerning the federal ban on assault weapons. The 1994 ban could
    expire in September 2004 if Congress doesn't extend it.

    Now here's a sampling of your viewer e-mail.

    From David in Calhoun, Georgia: "It's not the weapon which has the
    knockdown power, it's the ammo."

    From Andrei in Washington, D.C.: "You made no mention that many
    Americans legally own fully automatic weapons with a special permit."

    And from Jim in San Francisco: "Your sources implied that assault
    weapons are more powerful than currently legal guns, but it appeared
    that the only functional distinction was in the size of the clip."

    We want to thank our viewers for their feedback and for viewers who
    didn't watch yesterday, we asked the Broward County, Florida's
    sheriff's office for a demonstration of the assault weapon. The deputy
    fired an illegal weapon at cinder blocks and bulletproof vests and you
    can see the impact here. And then the deputy fired a legal weapon, but
    the deputy did not fire at the cinder blocks so you could not see
    similar damage the ammunition would have caused.

    Also yesterday on the program former L.A. police chief, Bernard Parks,
    who's in favor of keeping assault weapons illegal, gave his opinion.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    BERNARD PARKS, FORMER L.A. POLICE CHIEF: There's only one reason for it
    and you cannot hunt with it. It's only one reason and that is that it
    kills people. It's a military weapon. It should be kept in a military
    arsenal and out of the domestic society.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    PHILLIPS: Now we give you the other side from the executive vice
    president of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre

    Wayne, thanks for being with us.

    WAYNE LAPIERRE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, NRA: Hi, Kyra. Good to be
    with you.

    PHILLIPS: Well, if the ban on assault weapons expires, what kind of
    weapons would be legal?

    LAPIERRE: Kyra, let me say this to start: I'm glad you ran the story
    because apparently the only difference between "The New York Times" and
    CNN is that when a reporter for "The New York Times" fakes a story,
    he's fired, and at CNN he's not.

    Your bureau chief, John Zarrella, deliberately faked the story
    yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of
    banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance
    characteristics of firearms not on the banned list. He was -- he was
    implying that these were machine guns or fully automatic guns. That's
    not true.

    PHILLIPS: Mr. LaPierre, I have to stop you there. No one fakes stories
    at CNN and John Zarrella definitely did not fake a story at CNN. You're
    very off base. I'm going to let you say your opinion, and let's have a
    conversation, but don't accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir.

    LAPIERRE: Let me say it again. In front of the whole country, your
    reporter faked that story yesterday. It deliberately misread...

    PHILLIPS: All right, we're going...

    LAPIERRE: There's no way it could be true and I challenge CNN to defend
    it.

    PHILLIPS: Well, we're not going to continue this interview because our
    reporter did not fake...

    LAPIERRE: Because you don't want the truth. The truth you don't want
    out there.

    PHILLIPS: OK, that is not true. We did not a fake a story.

    LAPIERRE: You ought to register your -- you ought to fill out a lobby
    form and register.

    PHILLIPS: Why don't we ask another question? What are the uses for an
    assault weapon? Tell me what the uses are for this.

    LAPIERRE: Why can't you accept the truth? There is no difference, Kyra,
    in the performance characteristics of the guns on the banned list and
    the guns not on the banned list. They don't shoot any faster, they're
    not more powerful, they're not machine guns, they don't make any bigger
    holes, all which your reporter, John Zarrella, implied in that story.

    PHILLIPS: Let's talk about the ammunition. Folks had problem with the
    ammunition. We've heard a lot in the last 24 hours from viewers who
    made the point that it's not the weapons who do the damage, it's the
    ammo. OK? Can legally be bought, ammunition. Now does this do -- do
    just as much damage than an illegal weapon?

    LAPIERRE: Kyra, they all fire the same ammunition. Why can't you accept
    the truth? There is no difference in the guns on the banned list and
    the guns not on the banned list.

    Your reporter's story was deliberately misleading the viewers. Bill
    Clinton deliberately misrepresented the House and the facts to the
    House of Representatives in the Congress and I don't believe this House
    of Representatives is going to fall and have the wool pulled over their
    eyes the way what happened did in '94.

    The truth matters. The public needs to hear the truth and the truth is
    every police officer on the street knows it. There's not a dime worth
    of difference between the guns on the banned list and the guns off the
    banned list in terms of their performance characteristics and I
    challenge CNN again to defend that story to its viewers because it's
    not true.

    PHILLIPS: What do you say...

    LAPIERRE: All day yesterday you misled the viewers.

    PHILLIPS: What do you say to the members of the law enforcement
    community that we had on the air who say assault weapons don't belong
    on the streets?

    LAPIERRE: Kyra, I got calls all day yesterday from law enforcement
    officers going crazy over that story you ran saying it's not true. They
    were dismayed that there was a law enforcement officer on there lending
    himself to it.

    The story misrepresented the facts. What we need to do to stop crime --
    every time you catch a criminal, 100 percent of the time, prosecute
    him. Put him in prison.

    We have all kinds of gun laws. Catch a violent felon with a gun, put
    him in jail. Catch a violent drug dealer with a gun, put them in jail
    100 percent of the time. That's what rank-and-file cops know stops
    crime. But again, I challenge CNN in the headquarters to take an
    objective look at that story and defend it because it's simply not
    true.

    PHILLIPS: All right. Executive vice president...

    LAPIERRE: "The New York Times" reporter was fired, John Zarrella ought
    to be fired.

    PHILLIPS: Executive vice president of the National Rifle Association,
    Wayne LaPierre, that's why we are interviewing you today and that's why
    we're addressing this to show both sides of that story.

    And we all stick by John Zarrella and how credible of a reporter he is.

    Thank you for your time, sir.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
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