Among the media covering the aftermath of the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is one Ryan J. Reilly, whose title is “Justice Reporter” for Huffington Post Politics. He was previously at Talking Points Memo.
On Sunday morning, he tweeted out the following:
http://bit.ly/1riAzKk
Read the whole thing but key point here is...
The thing about not knowing that earplugs are not rubber bullets is that it makes it really hard to take any other reporting about police tactics, much less guns, seriously. It’s one of those unfortunately boneheaded errors that destroys credibility. Heck, it makes me wonder if Reilly has never been to either a gun range or a concert, where such earplugs are commonly found.
On Sunday morning, he tweeted out the following:
http://bit.ly/1riAzKk
Read the whole thing but key point here is...
The thing about not knowing that earplugs are not rubber bullets is that it makes it really hard to take any other reporting about police tactics, much less guns, seriously. It’s one of those unfortunately boneheaded errors that destroys credibility. Heck, it makes me wonder if Reilly has never been to either a gun range or a concert, where such earplugs are commonly found.
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