CBS’s REVISIONIST REALITY

"...gun owners have overwhelmed the telephones at CBS Evening News..."

      Ignoring mounds of scholarly research from the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, including Lawrence Tribe (Harvard), Akil Reed Amar (Yale), William Van Alstyne (Duke), and Sanford Levinson (Texas), CBS News furthered its elitist approach to "broadcast journalism," and fell further out of step with reality and a vast majority of law-abiding Americans in airing a blatantly biased "Reality Check" segment in which reporter Eric Engberg falsely claimed that the Second Amendment is not an individual right (See NRA-ILA Special Fax Alert 8/3/99).

      In response to NRA-ILA Executive Director James J. Baker’s urging of NRA members and concerned citizens to contact CBS and voice their displeasure over erroneous and irresponsible reporting, gun owners have overwhelmed the telephones at CBS Evening News. Nonetheless, as reported in Friday’s USA Today, CBS spokeswoman Kim Akhtar said, "Everything Eric Engberg reported is true."

      As long as CBS is willing to stick by their guns by promoting falsehoods and myths about the Second Amendment, we strongly encourage you to continue your calls, faxes and letters to CBS Evening News, giving them their own reality check! CBS News’s main phone number is (212) 975-3691 or (212) 975-6677, and their fax number is (212) 975-1893. Please encourage your friends, family members and fellow supporters of the Bill of Rights to call as well.

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