CNN Distorts "Assault Weapon" Demonstration

CNN Distorts "Assault Weapon" Demonstration

CNN Concedes, Sort of, Distorted "Assault Weapon" Demonstration--5/20/2003-- Media Research Center

Reeling from NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre charging CNN with fabricating and "deliberately faking" a story last Thursday to demonstrate how a banned "assault weapon" has much more dangerous firepower than a legal model, on Monday's Wolf Blitzer Reports, substitute anchor Miles O'Brien didn't go so far as to offer a retraction, but he did concede CNN's demonstration needed further amplification.

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