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John Stossel On Media Bias; Red Dot Sights And Prescription Glasses; Welcome To Competition Shooting: 08.17.25 Hour 2

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In This Hour:

-- Veteran TV network host John Stossel offers thoughts on why the media tends to be biased about gun issues.

--  Thoughts on using bifocal glasses for shooting and the option of a red dot sight.

--  What's it like to attend your first competiton shoot?  One shooter describes how he was greeted.

Gun Talk 08.17.25 Hour 2

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:14.4

You know, when you talk about guns and the media, I'm always amazed at the coverage or weird

0:20.7

coverage we get in the media.

0:22.4

And I was thinking about who can we get on to talk about what goes on with the media

0:25.8

and as it relates to guns, but also just generally speaking.

0:29.2

Because I'm an old J-School guy.

0:31.1

I look at what's going on in journalism these days and it drives me crazy.

0:34.6

I thought, who better to do that than John Stossel, the guy who's been

0:37.6

like popping the balloons of pomposity and the craziness in the media for many, many years.

0:43.9

John Stossel, thank you for being here, man.

0:45.7

Nice to be here. All right. So let me ask you, you have written about and covered the media

0:51.5

for many, many years. You've also done things on gun control and how,

0:55.3

one of the things that you have done traditionally that I really appreciated is basically the

1:00.7

whole deal of everybody thinks this, whatever that this is, but this is actually not true and

1:06.7

this is the other thing. What got you started in wanting to kind of peel things back and look at what's really going on?

1:13.9

Outside of gone, it's what got me started was I was a consumer reporter, and I was pointing out how business cheats people.

1:21.9

And my instinct as a liberal young reporter was that government should fix that. But I stayed on the beat,

1:30.5

and I watched how the government solutions made things more complicated and expensive, but didn't

1:37.8

fix any of the problems. They just added a hurdle. So I started questioning a lot of what the

1:43.4

mainstream media and my own liberal

1:46.2

assumptions were. And I started reading the conservative press, but I wasn't thrilled with them

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