{"id":4698,"date":"2011-03-04T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/03\/04\/roundup-of-mainstream-media-reports-on\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:36","slug":"roundup-of-mainstream-media-reports-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Roundup Of Mainstream Media Reports On Project Gunwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18000,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-guns-mexico-20110304,0,7581670,full.story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-guns-mexico-20110304,0,7581670,full.story&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18043,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.joycefdn.org\\\/content.cfm\\\/grant-list?GrantID=32386&amp;GrantDetails=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.joycefdn.org\\\/content.cfm\\\/grant-list?GrantID=32386&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18004,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.publicintegrity.org\\\/articles\\\/entry\\\/2976&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.publicintegrity.org\\\/articles\\\/entry\\\/2976&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18044,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dallasnews.com\\\/opinion\\\/editorials\\\/20110303-editorial-federal-gun-smuggling-surveillance-program-backfires-.ece&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111105072211\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dallasnews.com\\\/opinion\\\/editorials\\\/20110303-editorial-federal-gun-smuggling-surveillance-program-backfires-.ece&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 17:35:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 17:35:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18003,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2011\\\/US\\\/03\\\/04\\\/mexico.guns.grassley&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>After Sharyl Attkisson&#8217;s first report for CBS News on Project Gunwalker, the mainstream media yawned. However, after last night&#8217;s report which featured Sr. Agent John Dodson on camera and on the record, the mainstream media has started to wake up. I should clarify that last statement &#8211; some of the mainstream media are starting to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>It is still a non-story to the New York Times. At the Washington Post, despite their big investigation into &#8220;The Secret Life of Guns&#8221; earlier this year, all they saw fit to do was reprint a story from the LA Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-guns-mexico-20110304,0,7581670,full.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>, however, is reporting on the story in conjunction with Center for Public Integrity.<br \/>\nAs part of the story they interviewed Sen. Chuck Grassley who has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;We still don&#8217;t have the documents we&#8217;ve asked for. Maybe we will get the documents. But right now it&#8217;s stonewalling,&#8221; Grassley said in an interview Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too many government agencies always want the big case,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They keep these gun-running sales moving along, even when they have people within the agency that say something bad&#8217;s going to happen. They had plenty of warnings \u2026 and the prophets turned out to be right.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the LA Times story covered ground that was previously tilled by bloggers and CBS News. Nonetheless, it is important that a major newspaper has come out with the story.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the involvement of the Center for Public Integrity so interesting is that they are a recipient of funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joycefdn.org\/content.cfm\/grant-list?GrantID=32386&amp;GrantDetails=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Foundation<\/a> to develop stories on the &#8220;gun industry lobby.&#8221; However, given the hard-hitting nature of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/articles\/entry\/2976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their latest report here<\/a>&nbsp; along with their assistance to the LA Times, I don&#8217;t think the Joyce Foundation can be too happy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/editorials\/20110303-editorial-federal-gun-smuggling-surveillance-program-backfires-.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> ran an editorial on it as the investigation on gun walking has expanded to stores in Texas. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/03\/04\/mexico.guns.grassley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN has a story out on Project Gunwalker<\/a> this afternoon with extensive reporting of the Grassley investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News is covering it as well. They brought in Judge Andrew Napolitano, their senior judicial analyst, for his thoughts on it. He makes a good point that to really get to the bottom of this the investigation must be done by Congress and it must be in the House. A multi-agency review conducted out of the Department of Justice most likely will&nbsp;result in a whitewash and a Senate investigation could be hindered by the Democratic majority. Whether the House Judiciary Committee will take it up &#8211; and has the cojones to see the investigation through &#8211; is anybody&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Sharyl Attkisson&#8217;s first report for CBS News on Project Gunwalker, the mainstream media yawned. However, after last night&#8217;s&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,544],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mainstream-media","tag-project-gunwalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}