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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1343775" data-attributes="member: 33372">CNN Adopts Flawed Right-Wing Logic On School Shooting NumbersCNN is adopting flawed right-wing media logic that seeks to downplay the numbers of school shootings in the last 18 months.How Everytown reached the 74 school shooting figure is no mystery. On its website, the gun safety group<a href="http://everytown.org/article/schoolshootings/" target="_blank">clearly explains its methodology</a>: &quot;Incidents were classified as school shootings when a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds, as documented in publicly reported news accounts. This includes assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings.&quot;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/12/cnn-adopts-flawed-right-wing-logic-on-school-sh/199699" target="_blank">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/12/cnn-adopts-flawed-right-wing-logic-on-school-sh/199699</a>The right-wing media has sought to debunk this statistic in order to downplay the prevalence of school shootings. Criticism of Everytown&#039;s graphic began on June 10 with <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/10/wow-journalist-attempts-to-debunk-anti-gun-groups-list-of-school-shootings-in-america-since-sandy-hook-heres-what-he-found/" target="_blank">a lengthy series of tweets</a> from conservative journalist <a href="http://mediamatters.org/tags/charles-c-johnson" target="_blank">Charles C. Johnson</a> that purported to debunk many of the 74 shootings as &quot;fake shooting<s>.&quot;</s><s></s><s>Shootings that Johnson believed had been mischaracterized as school shootings included incidents where, in his own words, &quot;A gunman ran onto campus, was chased by police, shot student accidentally,&quot; &quot;Honors student shoots self in front of class,&quot; and, &quot;Northwest High School principal shot by her ex-husband on campus&quot;:</s><s></s></blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1343775, member: 33372"] [SIZE=6][B]CNN Adopts Flawed Right-Wing Logic On School Shooting Numbers[/B] [B]CNN is adopting flawed right-wing media logic that seeks to downplay the numbers of school shootings in the last 18 months.[/B] [B]How Everytown reached the 74 school shooting figure is no mystery. On its website, the gun safety group[URL='http://everytown.org/article/schoolshootings/']clearly explains its methodology[/URL]: "Incidents were classified as school shootings when a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds, as documented in publicly reported news accounts. This includes assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings." [url]http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/12/cnn-adopts-flawed-right-wing-logic-on-school-sh/199699[/url] The right-wing media has sought to debunk this statistic in order to downplay the prevalence of school shootings. Criticism of Everytown's graphic began on June 10 with [URL='http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/10/wow-journalist-attempts-to-debunk-anti-gun-groups-list-of-school-shootings-in-america-since-sandy-hook-heres-what-he-found/']a lengthy series of tweets[/URL] from conservative journalist [URL='http://mediamatters.org/tags/charles-c-johnson']Charles C. Johnson[/URL] that purported to debunk many of the 74 shootings as "fake shooting[s]." Shootings that Johnson believed had been mischaracterized as school shootings included incidents where, in his own words, "A gunman ran onto campus, was chased by police, shot student accidentally," "Honors student shoots self in front of class," and, "Northwest High School principal shot by her ex-husband on campus": [/s][/B][s][/s][/SIZE][s][/s] [/QUOTE]

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