Media Bias - Omissions and Selective Editing
AR-15 Inventor Says HBO 'Misrepresented' His
Views by Omitting 'Key Parts' of His Answers
By Tré Goins-Phillips. May 31st, 2016
AR-15 inventor Jim Sullivan is seeking to clarify comments he made about guns in a recent interview on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," saying the network "misrepresented much of what I said."
"They were apparently trying to make the AR-15 civilian model seem too dangerous for civilian sales," he wrote in The Federalist Tuesday. "They didn't lie about what I said, they just omitted key parts, which changed the meaning."
Sullivan wrote that the moments in the interview he takes issue with are in regard to discussion about the AR-15 when he says he "appears" to say the civilian model is equally as effective as the military-grade M16. According to Sullivan, HBO omitted when he clarified, "When firing semi-auto only" and "the select fire M16 on full auto is of course more effective." ..... 
We can add this story to the recent Katie Couric controversy, where she selectively edited her movie "Under the Gun" (JPFO alert 5/23/16). Our fight to protect the Second Amendment is not only ongoing but is, as ever, prejudiced by the near constant disease of media bias - positive reports are either omitted or distorted and so the anti-gun fraternity constantly benefits. It will ever be thus, but we have to do all possible to try and balance the books.
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