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Plain Dealer journalistic integrity update: No new corrections, another error

10:49am Thursday, April 26, 2007

In the wake of having been notified by Buckeye Firearms Association that three news stories in the past week have contained significant errors, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has thus far refused to answer to the Indictment of Cleveland Plain Dealer - Violation of Journalist Code of Ethics . A href="http://www.cleveland.com/corrections/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/other/1177057847243560.xml&coll=2...

VT Roundabout: 26 Beautiful Stories on the VT Massacre, and Three Ugly Ones

12:05am Thursday, April 26, 2007

The typical BuckeyeFirearms.org's "Pro-Gun Punditry: Buckeye State Roundabout" notes that there are many more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than we could draw attention to with individual daily commentary, but that they are all worthy of mention. This past week, the same can be said for commentary on the Virginia Tech massacre. Click 'Read More' for this special edition, Wednesday'...

Plain Dealer columnists defend self-defense; AP continues to report bad info

12:00pm Wednesday, April 25, 2007

By Chad D. Baus I hope none of the Cleveland Plain Dealer readers who opened their newspapers today had a serious heart condition, because it must have been quite a shock. The newspaper has published not one, but TWO, op-eds by Plain Dealer columnists defending CHL-holder Damon Wells taking action to defend himself against an armed teenaged thug. The first column, written by Plain Dealer...

Plain Dealer Abandons Journalistic Ideals in Coverage of Self-Defense News

12:15am Wednesday, April 25, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE While most of Ohio’s news media have done a fair-to-admirable job covering the issue of self-defense, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer appears to have abandoned any pretext of journalistic integrity on this topic. Consider several recent stories: A boy dies, and a gun debate is reignited (April 24, 2007), Tragedy at Virginia Tech (April 18, 2007), and Gun advocates in massacre find...

Responder Zero

12:10am Wednesday, April 25, 2007

By Clint Lake In the world of infectious diseases there is a term called ‘Patient Zero’. This is essentially the first person to start the epidemic spreading to numerous points unknown. The Center For Disease Control has the job of backtracking from the most recent recipient of the disease all the way back to ‘Patient Zero’ in order to determine how the bug transported from person to person and...

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Ohio CHL-holder protects self with gun; lazy media buys lie that it's a "first"

by Jim Irvine and Chad D. Baus

1:10pm Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that another innocent life has been protected thanks to Ohio's concealed handgun license law. From the story: Damon Wells is the man gun supporters were imagining when they fought for the right to carry concealed weapons. He had a permit to carry his gun, and he had the gun on him when a pair of teenage thieves approached him Saturday night on his front...

Cleveland homicides - criminals killing criminals

12:05am Tuesday, April 24, 2007

By Alex Payton A recent article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that most homicide victims in Cleveland are criminals. From the article: Most of the victims of homicide in Cleveland look a lot like their killers. They are criminals being killed by other criminals. The incidents almost always involve black men killing a man of the same race. The deadliest areas are those stricken with...

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The most neglected part of self-defense training

12:10am Monday, April 23, 2007

By Ken Hanson Most self-defense advocates take training very seriously. We cover mindset, awareness, equipment, ammunition and scenarios in most any training. However, there is one component of concealed carry training that is completely ignored by most schools. This is unfortunate, as this one component is the one that is statistically most likely to result in the arrest of a concealed carry...