Here’s a primer for those not accustomed to reading the media with an extremely critical eye. In Canada, it is essential to learn this skill and practice it every news-reading/watching/listening minute, because half the news is designed to promote liberal-left fundamentalism, and the other half to being anti-conservative.
My Yahoo News search lists this Associated Press (AP) news headline:
Of course liberal media types see this as a big indictment against President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, because it makes her appear to be an unlicensed gun owner (that’s two “bad” things: gun owner (yucky conservative!) and unlicensed (a criminal!)). I was interested in knowing she was a gun owner because contrary to what I believe was their intention, I view that as a positive, not a negative.
But when you click their link to the article, two things occur: First, it leads to the AP story on the FoxNews.com site but the headline is not that at all. Here it is:
…no “Without License”. Why, I wondered.
Well it’s because secondly, you have to read through the article a fair ways before you find a sentence clueing us in a tad, to wit: YOU DON’T NEED A LICENSE TO OWN A GUN IN TEXAS.
AUSTIN, Texas — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who once owned a .45-caliber revolver, is not licensed to carry a concealed handgun in Texas. State officials refused Monday to reveal whether she has ever been licensed.
Miers’ brother gave her the Smith & Wesson handgun when he was worried about her living alone in Dallas. Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, a longtime friend of Miers’, has said she kept the gun for a long time.
State law requires the release of information about license holders but not former license holders, said Pamela Smith, assistant general counsel for the agency.
A person in Texas can own a gun without a concealed handgun license. Texas is one of 43 states that allow concealed weapons, and more than 230,000 residents are registered under the law. […]
Apparently FoxNews.com took editorial license and removed the misleading “Without License” from the headline. But still…
Details, details, huh? Skim the AP headline, get the wrong idea. Read even the first few paragraphs, still left the same wrong impression. Eureka!
The liberal media simply licks their chops, and move on. Seed planted. Bug in the ear. Mission accomplished. MoveOn.
(The slightest of hat tips to a tiny comment I read on a blog entry at LGF.)
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