Associated Press Archives - The Truth About Guns

AP Gun Article Relies on Inaccuracies, Reveals Bias in Reporting

July 12, 2024 by Doug Howlett

Founded in 1846, the Associated Press describes itself as “the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.” More than half of the world’s population is exposed to AP stories every day, the wire service claims. Associated Press … Read more

What’s the Definition of a Mass Shooting? Anti-Gun Groups Play Loose With the Numbers

February 29, 2024 by TTAG Contributor

When it comes to reporting news on shootings and gun deaths, the numbers don’t lie…or do they? It’s hard to say when the numbers and measurements don’t even match and groups with an agenda twist the definitions of “mass shooting” to help inflate the numbers. There were 648 mass shootings in 2020, according to the … Read more

AP Can’t Put a Finger on the Reason for the Spike in Shootings and Murders in the U.S.

December 28, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

The following story on the spike in shootings and firearms-related murders from the Associated Press is 984 words long. Yet if you run a CTRL-F, you’ll find that nowhere in the story do the words “riot,” “jail,” “prison,” “bail” or “defund” appear. Apparently the AP’s Corey Williams didn’t find the fact that the country saw … Read more

11 Tips For Journalists Who Want To Cover Guns Like Old School Objective Reporters

April 26, 2019 by John Boch

Just in time for the NRA convention — or frankly any time of the year — a Guns Save Life member submitted this list of suggestions to me for reporters who want to be real reporters. As opposed to shills who simply regurgitate the talking points from a press release from an anti-gun group. I. … Read more

ATF Death Watch 95: The Pot Calls the Kettle Black.

October 5, 2011 by

I swear to God the title of this essay is NOT in any way, shape or form, some kind of racist thing – overt, covert, implied or otherwise. But what are you gonna call it with the Attorney General of these United States gets caught lying to Congress, and the best thing they can come up with for their defense of Fast n’ Furious is “Oh yeah? Well the Bush people did it, too!” Pot, meet kettle.

AP: Loners Hard to Catch. In Other News, Water is Still Wet.

January 17, 2011 by

Yep. The crack reporters at the Associated (de)Press(ed – hat tip to Mark Levin) are rested, ready and a-rarin’ to go, with coverage on the Jared Lee Loughner phenomenon. Well, that is if you count “incompetent sheriff’s apologist” as Excellence in Journalism. When even the New York Times feels obligated to point out that the police and sheriff’s office knew about Loughner long before the attack, and had several run-ins with him, you’ve got to enjoy the contortions the AP’s going through, to spin the story to exonerate the sheriff, and implicate the Right.