From latzko@ns1.rutgers.edu Fri Feb 4 09:57:36 1994 Received: from demon.corp.portal.com (demon.corp.portal.com [156.151.1.10]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA17578 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 1994 09:57:35 -0800 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by demon.corp.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA25035 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 1994 09:56:48 -0800 Received: from ns1.rutgers.edu (ns1.rutgers.edu [128.6.21.6]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.4-1.13) with SMTP id JAA20370 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 1994 09:57:32 -0800 Received: by ns1.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04233; Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:54:22 EST Received: from csn.org by ns1.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA04223; Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:54:16 EST Received: from kr-bbs.UUCP by csn.org with UUCP id AA20104 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for firearms-politics@ns1.rutgers.edu); Fri, 4 Feb 1994 10:54:13 -0700 Received: by kr-bbs (PCB-UUCP 1.1c) id 9F4E70; Fri, 4 Feb 94 10:43:55 -0700 To: firearms-politics@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: NRA Q&A in the Atlanta Constitution From: larry.gibes@kr-bbs.com (Larry Gibes) Message-Id: <9f.3783.37.0C9F4E70@kr-bbs.com> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 10:25:00 -0700 Organization: Knowledge Resource BBS, 303-678-8439, 303-545-2736 Status: RO An online search turned up the following. The questions was not included. This is not the full record. I'm including only the NRA section. Since it was a "NRA spokesman" who gave the answer, bias may may be clamed. -------- start of (partial) included article -------- Q & A ON THE NEWS Atlanta Constitution (AC) - Tuesday February 1, 1994 By: Betty Parham and Gerrie Ferris Section: NATIONAL NEWS Page: A/2 Word Count: 538 TEXT: Do you have a question about the news - local, national or international? Betty Parham with Gerrie Ferris will try to get and answer for you. Call 222-2002 on a Touch-Tone phone and follow the instructions. -Tim Conner, Austell A: ABC, CBS and NBC do not accept NRA advertising or public service announcements, said an NRA spokesman, though CBS made one exception when it permitted the NRA to sponsor a spot congratulating the U.S. Olympic shooting team during the 1992 Winter Olympics. The NRA was turned down by all three networks when it wanted to run a spot saveatulating U.S. troops after the Persian Gulf War. CNN takes NRA spots, as does Nickelodeon, which runs spots, geared to children, warning of the dangers of guns. The mainstream print media also have refused more NRA ads than they have run. But there has been a recent loosening of that policy at Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, People, Women's Day, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook and McCall's. Those magazines have run regional ads for the NRA's "Refuse to Be a Victim" program, a firearms education project for women.