After listening to this morning's "news" report on CBS radio, I have a few questions:
1) CBS made a big point promoting a statement by Milwaukee mayor Barrett calling for complete background checks on all buyers in gun transactions, even those between private individuals. Why is it that CBS only covers calls for background checks but never covers the failure of background checks to work. Nine out of ten states do not supply valid information regarding mental health to the data base used for background checks. There were mental health issues known about the shooter in Aurora, for example, that would have barred him from purchasing any weapon had they been put into the data base. Why does no one in the media talk about this?
2) CBS ran a big story about a mortar attack in Damascus which hit the campus of a local unitversity and resulted in the deaths of a few students. Why does that story merit attention when the deaths of the other 75,000 killed in Syria got scant notice? Where has the media been on this story for the last two years?
3) CBS explained in detail that the Supreme Court argument on the Defense of Marriage Act was a way for the Court to use federalism to accomplish the approval of gay marriage. Here, my question is who hired that reporter? Clearly, the CBS reporter on the story had no idea what had happened at the Court. The issue being considered by the Court happened to come up in the context of gay marriage, but it really was about something entirely different: namely, could the federal government set a national standard for a matter normally controlled by the states which would supersede the laws of the states.
1) CBS made a big point promoting a statement by Milwaukee mayor Barrett calling for complete background checks on all buyers in gun transactions, even those between private individuals. Why is it that CBS only covers calls for background checks but never covers the failure of background checks to work. Nine out of ten states do not supply valid information regarding mental health to the data base used for background checks. There were mental health issues known about the shooter in Aurora, for example, that would have barred him from purchasing any weapon had they been put into the data base. Why does no one in the media talk about this?
2) CBS ran a big story about a mortar attack in Damascus which hit the campus of a local unitversity and resulted in the deaths of a few students. Why does that story merit attention when the deaths of the other 75,000 killed in Syria got scant notice? Where has the media been on this story for the last two years?
3) CBS explained in detail that the Supreme Court argument on the Defense of Marriage Act was a way for the Court to use federalism to accomplish the approval of gay marriage. Here, my question is who hired that reporter? Clearly, the CBS reporter on the story had no idea what had happened at the Court. The issue being considered by the Court happened to come up in the context of gay marriage, but it really was about something entirely different: namely, could the federal government set a national standard for a matter normally controlled by the states which would supersede the laws of the states.
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