Op-Ed: Time to Control Dangerous Assault Journalists

By Alan Gottlieb

Seventeen confirmed dead and hundreds injured. This was not the work of some stereotypical lunatic with a gun, but the handiwork of a careless reporter who must have graduated from the Dan Rather School of investigative journalism.

Now that Newsweek has lived up to the high standard of prevarication established by Jayson Blair at the New York Times and by Janet Cooke at Newsweek’s parent company, the Washington Post, maybe it’s time to establish the kind of ground rules for reporters that the anti-gun press has advocated for American gun owners, who never lied, or caused harm to anybody.

Why isn’t Sarah Brady screaming for a clampdown on “assault journalism?” Why can’t we demand some “common sense” controls on out-of-control reporters who go off half-cocked faster than a broken musket?

Where’s Chuck Schumer? He’s good at dancing in the blood of gunshot victims to push his gun control agenda. Why isn’t he just as eager to capitalize on the mayhem of riots that resulted from Newsweek’s bogus story about the Guantanamo Bay flush that never happened? Schumer’s never been one to hide from media exposure. This is the first time he’s missed the opportunity to trample his way to the television camera.

With tongue-in-cheek, let’s apply the same logic to exercising the First Amendment that the mainstream press has accepted as reasonable when applied to those exercising the Second Amendment. It might be shocking to members of the press just how eagerly American firearms owners would seriously embrace this concept of karma.

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