See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
While it may have been surprising that all three broadcast networks covered on Monday evening the deadly violence in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, what wasn’t surprising was that they looked to blame guns for the violence and advanced the cause of more gun control (as opposed to gang violence or the need for better policing).
In a meager 19-second news brief on the Windy City’s weekend of violence, ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir reported that there was a “flurry of gun violence” with “nine people killed” and “at least 53 injured” as Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel made “an impassioned plea for stricter gun laws in his city and across the country.”