http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/8568/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-blame-businesses-wake-tech-tragedy <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >     Last week after tragedy struck Virginia Tech and a gunman took 32 innocent lives, the media portrayed legal businesses as complicit in the murders.</p> <br /> <p >     The media coverage quickly turned into a raging debate about gun control, with reporters on the three major networks blaming a number of businesses that committed no crime. ABC’s Brian Ross was the worst offender, painting Roanoke Firearms as the villain on several different ABC programs.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-blame-businesses-wake-tech-tragedy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Government Cho Crime Glock gun handgun killing Markell massacre pistol RoanokeFirearms Shooting VirginiaTech Walther Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:04:33 +0000 admin 25536 at http://archive2.mrc.org