I've been thinking about this the last few days, and I have decided to tell the story of how scott pelley performed the task of causing me to have huge distrust for any clown pretending to be a Professional j
Journalist:
This was back when Glocks were first getting really popular in the US, and he was one of the usual suspects who liked to pontificate on 'This is dangerous.This is untraceable.This is undetectable by airline security!' And so forth, I happened to have the tv on that evening for the news, I still had half decent trust in the news back then. He was going through all this, and I was listening to it, wondering where he got this crap when he did his wonderful ending.
He went through something about how this these guns are undetectable and untraceable, and then he said, 'Yes, they have serial numbers, but the serial number is just stamped into the plastic, where it can be destroyed with a lit cigarette.' At which point he looked at the camera, gave it his patented "Isn't this disgusting" look and then signed off.
Which left me sitting there saying what the hell are you talking about? You moron, that's not true, which left me to decide whether Pelley was given this bullshit information by a staffer, and he didn't bother to check on it, or if he knew he was lying, and didn't care since it served the preferred narrative?
In either case, it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and the knowledge that I couldn't trust him or one of his coworkers, and I would have to check every word they said for confirmation before I could believe it.
And that is how Pelley did the same thing a Oklahoma politician once did of causing me to distrust every word he had to say, and starting a from-then lifelong distrust of the profession.
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