{"id":8286,"date":"2024-03-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:52:58","slug":"how-the-media-distorts-self-defense-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/how-the-media-distorts-self-defense-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW THE MEDIA DISTORTS SELF-DEFENSE INCIDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My old friend Attorney Andrew Branca is the author of \u201cLaw of Self-Defense,\u201d which I strongly recommend that you read, and also stars in an excellent regular YouTube channel of the same title.It\u2019s worth a few minutes of your time to watch him here:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Deceitful Media: Twisting the Truth in Self-Defense Cases\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRJ3TnEHP_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uRJ3TnEHP_A?si=z052PwgDfR6Lr5mL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He gives multiple examples of clear-cut self-defense shootings that turned into something else entirely by the time they hit the TV news screen or the front page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fairness to the journalists, they can only report what they can find. If the only voice for your side is silent \u2013 an old-school attorney who says \u201cI don\u2019t discuss my cases in the press\u201d \u2013 the only the false narrative gets heard in the Court of Public Opinion. The \u201cdon\u2019t discuss cases in the press\u201d policy only works when both sides abide by the treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Attorney Andrew Branca is the author of \u201cLaw of Self-Defense,\u201d which I strongly recommend that you read, and also stars in an excellent regular YouTube channel of the same title.It\u2019s worth a few minutes of your time to watch him here:&nbsp; He gives multiple examples of clear-cut self-defense shootings that turned into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8295,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions\/8295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}