I have had MANY conversations with the editorial staff of JMU's student newspaper "The Breeze" regarding "yellow journalism" vs the reporting of the facts. Occasionally I ding them on other stuff as well but I make it a point to never let a firearms or RKBA article go past me without "independent" review
So I'm very pleased to see my local activism paying off this year.
http://breezejmu.org/2009/10/22/masked-jmu-student-with-gun-arrested/
Why, you may ask, am I so proud of this article? Because The Breeze reported this one factually, with informational reference to State law, and absolutely ZERO histrionics. It didn't even make the screaming front page headlines it would have last year.
Okay, they got one fact wrong (Brandishing is a class 1 Misdemeanor or a class 6 Felony, NOT a class 1 Felony) and I have contacted their editors on that and posted online, but compared to the tabloid "journalism" we were getting last year this is a much needed shot of pure news REPORTING.
(Too bad the topic was someone being really stupid in a very public place <sigh>)
So I'm very pleased to see my local activism paying off this year.
http://breezejmu.org/2009/10/22/masked-jmu-student-with-gun-arrested/
Why, you may ask, am I so proud of this article? Because The Breeze reported this one factually, with informational reference to State law, and absolutely ZERO histrionics. It didn't even make the screaming front page headlines it would have last year.
Okay, they got one fact wrong (Brandishing is a class 1 Misdemeanor or a class 6 Felony, NOT a class 1 Felony) and I have contacted their editors on that and posted online, but compared to the tabloid "journalism" we were getting last year this is a much needed shot of pure news REPORTING.
(Too bad the topic was someone being really stupid in a very public place <sigh>)