CNN Boosts People Magazine's 'Call To Action' Against Gun Violence

Matthew Balan | October 7, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 7 October 2015 edition of CNN's New Day, Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira marveled over the "huge step" and "unprecedented move" by People magazine in publishing a "call to action" on the issue of gun violence. The celebrity-centered publication printed the names and phone numbers of all 535 members of Congress, and called on "readers to contact their elected representatives to make their voices heard" on the subject. Pereira wondered, "Are we at a tipping point? Are we at a tipping point in the nation when so many of us are saying, not again – not again?!"

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