Reader Identifies Blatant Gun Study Error Washington Post Couldn't (or Wouldn't) Detect
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2017/06/29/reader-identifies-blatant-gun-study-error-journalists-couldnt-or
One of the more annoying aspects of establishment press news coverage is how willing so many journalists are to accept obviously bogus statistics.
One recent example was seen on June 20 at the Washington Post. At its Wonkblog, Christopher Ingraham (and presumably his editors) blindly accepted a statistic on children's exposure to violence which anyone in touch with the real world should have recognized as obviously wrong, namely that 1 out of 24 children "witnessed a shooting" in the past year.
It's likely that if a single conscientious Dallas Morning News reader hadn't noticed and followed up on that error, that bogus statistic relayed by Ingraham could have poisoned the debate over gun violence and safety for years to come. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence