National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch rejects claim that the video – ‘the shot across your proverbial bow’ – can be interpreted as a violent threatThe largest gun lobby in the US has said in a video ad it is “coming for” the New York Times. National Rifle Association (NRA) spokesperson Dana Loesch, a prominent conservative media personality, attacked the newspaper in the video and called it an “untrustworthy, dishonest rag”. In response to claims that the ad was a call to arms and a threat against the safety of Times reporters, Loesch said anyone who interpreted the video that way was projecting “their violent fantasies on to others”. In the New York Times video, published to the gun lobby’s Twitter account on Friday night, Loesch accused the newspaper of making a “pretentious” claim that it provided accurate, fact-based journalism. Media matters: Archbishop on end of a good Fisking Read moreThe New York Times is not the first media company to find itself the target of Loesch’s ire.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2017 15:11 UTC