The latest story about ABC “investigative reporter” Brian Ross is just more of the same lies. This time he accuses the Second Amendment of enabling Mexican drug cartels to obtain automatic weapons. Of course, those weapons have been banned to US private citizens since 1933. His other gun related stories seem to be similarly fact-challenged. His lies are even challenged on his own blog comments, which is why the ABC web master has been deleting comments that don’t agree.
Others have noticed that his stories don’t always hold up.
“We were extremely careful whenever we saw a Brian Ross piece,” said the former producer. “He does some great work. But there were a lot of times that the pieces yelled one thing and seemed to suggest a crisis, and then he would dial it back almost entirely at the end of the piece by saying something like, ‘It’s important to know that the F.B.I. doesn’t take this threat seriously. And there’s no reason for concern.’” The former producer pointed to stories by Mr. Ross on the anthrax attacks and on Dennis Hastert’s role in the Jack Abramoff scandal, both of which received prominent play by ABC, but subsequently failed to ignite.
Maybe because they were not true ?
Just asking.