Newsbusters Uncovers NPR Bias Against Guns

Thank you to our friends at Newsbusters,org for watching how National Public Radio has reported on the issue of gun rights. According to the post, it seems that there is a double standard when the word “rights” or “advocates” are used.

In other words, NPR uses the word “rights,” which implies (to many of us anyway) that it is the “right thing” or something people believe is the “right thing” when discussing the topic of abortion, as in “abortion rights.” Only once was the phrase “abortion advocate” used. But the word “advocate” was used far more often with guns, again implying (at least to us) that NPR doesn’t think this is a “right.”

Of course liberals are often about rights… for the issues they support, such as “gay rights,” “abortion rights,” and so on. The irony is that if they don’t like the topic it is about “control,” as in “gun control.”