Regular readers are familiar with the concept of "Authorized Journalists"—professionals who work for "mainstream media" and are considered (sometimes by government and generally by themselves) to be the exclusive authoritative and credible purveyors of information. Think "Only Ones" with a press pass. These readers are also familiar with the many failings we've demonstrated where establishment reporters bring personal bias, along with "sins of omission and commission" into supposedly straight news stories. And then there are glaring errors where the only explanations seem the writers do not know (or fact-check) their subject matter, or they know damn well but have an agenda to promote.

My experience as a news consumer is that this is pervasive, and not just limited to guns. But since guns are what we're here to talk about, let's dig up once again the lie about "assault weapons" that was calculated with deceiving intent, and has been dutifully parroted by the "Authorized Journalists" ever since.

(Also check out the columns from Saturday and Sunday.)

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