U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- A sad fact about gun control politics is that if you are cynical enough you can darn near see the future.
Consider this NRA-ILA item from November 8, titled, “NBC News Tattletale Alerts Secret Service to “Let’s go Brandon” AR-15 Receiver.” The piece concerned an NBC News reporter who contacted the U.S. Secret Service over the sale of an AR-15 lower receiver emblazoned with the popular “Let’s go Brandon” political slogan. NRA-ILA explained in the article,
As legacy press outlets have lost much of their ability to manipulate public opinion, these institutions have resorted to increasingly desperate tactics to shape public discourse. Enter tattletale “journalism.”
This genre of article consists of identifying something that offends the delicate sensibilities of the prestige press and the elites they cater to and then reporting the offensive conduct to various authorities under the guise of asking them for comment. The transparent goal of such pieces is to pressure those in authority to stamp out the behavior.
This sometimes takes the form of a “journalist” alerting one of the tech oligopolies to material hosted on their platform that the reporter deems politically incorrect.
Less than a month after publishing the ridiculous “Let’s go Brandon” piece, NBC engaged in exactly the conduct described above.
According to an account from Ammoland.com, in recent weeks NBC News contributor Joshua Eaton contacted several firearms-related YouTube content producers to ask them about the material on their channels. The query focused on channels containing information on how people can exercise their Second Amendment right to build their own firearms.
NBC News then contacted YouTube with a list of channels containing this information, alerting the tech giant that these channels were supposedly not in compliance with the company’s “community guidelines.” This resulted in videos being deleted and demonetization of the channels. Ammoland.com obtained a letter from YouTube that explained,
All channels on YouTube must comply with our Community Guidelines, which prohibit content instructing viewers how to make firearms,” Jack Malon, YouTube spokesperson, told AmmoLand News. “After careful review, we have removed the videos in question for violation of our firearms policy, and we have also suspended the channels sent by NBC from the YouTube Partner Program for failure to follow our Advertiser-Friendly Guidelines.
For more information on this vital story see the Ammoland.com article by clicking here.
With its recent behavior, NBC News has abandoned any pretense of objectivity and is now engaged in partisan activism.
On his personal website, Eaton notes that prior to “going freelance” he wrote for ThinkProgress. That outlet was a project of the left-wing Center for American Progress – Action Fund. The Center for American Progress is a radical anti-gun organization. The group supports a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines and background checks for ammunition sales. At present, the outfit opposes the NRA-supported New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen U.S. Supreme Court case that would ensure the Second Amendment right of New Yorkers to carry a firearm for self-defense outside the home.
NBCUniversal would do well to keep this sort of rank advocacy to MSNBC, lest the public get wise to their broader propaganda campaign.
About NRA-ILA:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
This is one such example of what folks like me have been talking about for 30 years. We have not only a military/industrial complex as described by Ike in 1960 but we have a media/intelligence/law enforcement complex that works in unison to destroy opposition and destroy those who dare stand up to the ubiquitous progressive ideology resident in government agencies. Think Russian Collusion. Think Gen Michael Flynn. Think anyone who becomes a thorn in the side of the alphabet agencies of our federal government. Bureaucrats will lie, cheat and steal and collude with the press to do the same in… Read more »
So people stop using youtube use Rumble
This surprises me of National Broadcast Communist’s how.
on the contrary, NBC should let their partisan mask slip further so even more Americans can be educated on their dishonesty.
NBC has been banned and canceled at my house for years . I took a page out of the cancel culture book and canceled all Marxist , socialist , communist media sites . I don’t watch national news anymore, just local news and when they start the false narratives I change the channel. Silencing them all at my house has worked well for me !
Perhaps it is time we have common sense 1st amendment controls on the “main stream media “.
A right is supposed to be sacred and sacrosanct. Whereas a privilege is only a courtesy (or tool) extended by authority, and completely subject to revocation. Our Bill of Rights does not source from the government, rather, it is a description of a free being, before the fabrication of authoritarian government structure. The 2A denies the government the ability to diminish the preexisting right. All the incremental legislative movements towards citizen disarmament, each and every anti-2A bill submitted, are acts of treason, that politicians have, over time, conditioned themselves to ignore. I believe the Marxocrats only have influence due to… Read more »
More proof that Trump was correct in calling the legacy press, the Enemy of the People. A free society needs a free press but not a propagandist, biased unethical press with no journalistic standards and certainly not one that works in collusion with one party as well as the global information source provider to sway public opinions and elections. It is not an attack on the 1st Amendment to shut down liars pretending to be reporters. Their activism has and will lead to their demise, once enough people recognize it.
I never watch or listen to the alphabet channels, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, If everyone stopped these channels would dry up and blow away
Let’s go Easton!