{"id":2933,"date":"2012-10-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/10\/02\/so-much-for-truth-telling\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:40","slug":"so-much-for-truth-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"So Much For &#8220;Truth Telling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15092,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/smartgunlaws.org\\\/truth-telling-the-medias-role-in-the-conversation-on-guns&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170610162346\\\/http:\\\/\\\/smartgunlaws.org\\\/truth-telling-the-medias-role-in-the-conversation-on-guns\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 09:21:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 09:21:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15093,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.calguns.net\\\/calgunforum\\\/showthread.php?t=626941&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (sic) &#8211; the group formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence or LCAV &#8211; is holding an <a href=\"http:\/\/smartgunlaws.org\/truth-telling-the-medias-role-in-the-conversation-on-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event entitled <i>Truth Telling: The Media\u2019s Role in the Conversation on Guns<\/i> on October 25th.<\/a> It will be held at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence &amp; Opus2 International<br \/>\nare pleased to present:<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i><b> Truth Telling: The Media\u2019s Role in the Conversation on Guns<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><i><b>&nbsp;OCTOBER 25, 2012 | 6 \u2013 8:30 PM<\/b><br \/><b>UC Hastings College of the Law<\/b><\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nLouis B. Mayer Lounge<br \/>\n198 McAllister Street | San Francisco<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i><b>RSVP REQUIRED<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Free to Members, UC Hastings Students and Faculty<br \/>\n$12 All Other Students | $20 Non-Members<br \/>\n<b>The Law Center reserves the right to refuse admittance.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i><b><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i>Following an hors d\u2019oeuvres and wine reception, a diverse group of<br \/>\njournalists from local and national news outlets will share their<br \/>\nperspective on the role the media plays in the national conversation on<br \/>\nguns, particularly in an election year.<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<i>As the \u201cinformation age\u201d has become<br \/>\nincredibly fast-moving and complex, the media\u2019s power to inform,<br \/>\neducate, and persuade has also grown. Meanwhile, the topic of gun<br \/>\nviolence in America remains complicated and fueled by passionate beliefs<br \/>\n from all sides.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<i><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<i>What are some of the challenges journalists<br \/>\n and news agencies face when trying to tell the truth about America\u2019s<br \/>\ngun laws? What impact does the national political debate have on the<br \/>\nmedia\u2019s approach to this issue? How is \u201cnew media\u201d affecting the way in<br \/>\nwhich this conversation is cultivated?<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<i><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<i>Please join us to find out the answers to these questions and more. <b>Come and ask your own questions for our panelists!<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><b>JOINING THE PANEL:<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><b>MARK FOLLMAN<\/b>, Senior Editor, Mother Jones<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><b>KRIS HUNDLEY<\/b>, Staff  Writer, Tampa Bay Times<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><b>BOB EGELKO,<\/b> Staff  Writer, San Francisco Chronicle<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><b>SCOTT JOHNSON<\/b>, Violence Reporting Fellow, The Oakland Tribune<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><b>ABBY STERLING<\/b>, Producer, CBS 5 San Francisco<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><b>MODERATED BY:<br \/>\nRORY LITTLE<\/b>, UC Hastings Professor of Law<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the former LCAV really doesn&#8217;t want to hear anything other than their version of &#8220;the truth&#8221; as told by sycophantic reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that little disclaimer about &#8220;the right to refuse admittance&#8221;? This means that if they know you are associated with gun rights you are to be excluded from their little soiree. They don&#8217;t want their worldview tainted by dissenting questions.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calguns.net\/calgunforum\/showthread.php?t=626941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calguns.net\/calgunforum\/showthread.php?t=626941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Berger, a director of the CalGuns Foundation, had purchased tickets to this event.<\/a> You can guess what he had waiting in the mail for him when he returned from the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando. It was not the tickets he had ordered but rather a refund of his money with the note below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berger-refund-ltr.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berger-refund-ltr.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Truth telling is a joke when you are dealing with the gun prohibitionists. The only &#8220;truth&#8221; they want to hear is their own skewed version of it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (sic) &#8211; the group formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1834,3603],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-law-center-to-prevent-gun-violence","tag-lcav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}