Thursday, June 30, 2011

Misleading 'Violent Language' On YNN

YNN's (Channel 9 News) story about the National Organization for Marriage's campaign to replace Senators that flopped their votes on redefining marriage in NY contained what sounded like a quote from the group. A quote using violent language or imagery.

The reporter said, while showing a screenshot of the group's website, that there were a group of Senators "on the bullseye" (sic) for the campaign.

Again, the same type of language that the mainstream press had a nutty about after the Gifford's shooting, despite just about every campaign ever having used the language.

Anyway, here's the website they were showing:


See any "bullseye"s? See anything about "bullseye"s?

Nope. Nevertheless, YNN's reporter attributed this "violent language/imagery" to the group, despite the fact that no such imagery was used.

One might almost be inclined to call this a smear. Thanks, YNN.

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