What journalists should know about school shootings and guns

[Tinman507]

Excellent article directed at Journalists that will not be read by them

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/198260/what-journalists-should-know-about-school-shootings-and-guns/

And this companion primer on What Journalists should know about guns and gun control

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/182059/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-guns-and-gun-control/
(http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/182059/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-guns-and-gun-control/)
(http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/198260/what-journalists-should-know-about-school-shootings-and-guns/)

[CPO15]

Thanks, good reads. I was amazed at the decline in gun ownership until the stat that 20% of owners have 65% of the guns.

[Bawanna]

Those good with figures, especially those with the media where truth and accuracy don't matter can twist the numbers to look any way you want based on need at the time.

[Barth]

Those good with figures, especially those with the media where truth and accuracy don't matter can twist the numbers to look any way you want based on need at the time.

I learned early on in school that by selectively including and excluding specific data any result you want can be produced.

I remember a study on air quality that indicated the air over the L.A. area had improved.
Fewer smog alerts was given as proof of this claim.
In reality, the levels of contaminants that constitute a smog alert had been increased.
And the air quality had actually worsened.