‘No Comment’: Gun-Outing Newspaper Now Hiding Behind Expensive PR Firm

The small New York newspaper that made a big splash by publicizing the names and addresses of thousands of New York’s legal gun owners is now refusing to give comments to other news agencies and has hired a big time, expensive public relations firm from Manhattan as its public face.

Eric Wemple of the Washington Post recently found the curious situation when he contacted the Journal News to get some information but was told that he would now get his ubiquitous “no comment” from one Edmund Tagliaferri.

Wemple goes on to explain that Tagliaferri is an executive vice president at DKC, a Manhattan public relations, marketing and government affairs firm.

Wemple wonders why a newspaper headed Gannet, by one of the biggest newspaper chains in the country, needs a highfalutin, New York City-based PR firm to answer questions about its journalism. It is a good question, indeed.

Hiring a big-time PR firm sure makes the Journal News look like it can’t take the heat it has brought upon itself.

The paper may have quite a lot to spin itself out of, too. After at least one house burglary has been tied to the paper’s gun map stunt. After the Journal News published the address of a home that had guns inside, the home appears to have been targeted by thieves looking to steal guns. It also seems pretty clear that the homeowners have a solid case against the newspaper for liability.

Lastly, Project Veritas took on this general subject with its latest video sting, asking journalists if they’d post a sign in their yards proclaiming the premises to be “proudly gun-free.” The investigative videographers even went to the homes of some Journal News writers to see if, in keeping with their hatred for the Second Amendment, they’d post the sign in their own yards. Curiously, every journalist in the video felt that posting such a sign was an invitation to home invaders. Imagine that!!

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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on January 17, 2013.
Filed under 2nd Amendment, Constitutional Issues, Culture Of Corruption, Democrats, Gun control, Liberals, Media.
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, RightPundits.com, StoptheACLU.com, Human Events Magazine, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events.He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions, EMAIL Warner Todd Huston: igcolonel .at. hotmail.com"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." --Samuel Johnson

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