UPDATE: Saw the gun segment on tonight's episode of
60 Minutes.
Unlike the garbage on
20/20, in this case Lesley Stahl actually made an effort to be fair and balanced, showing both sides. (Though I DO note she interviewed the same "Omar" character that 20/20 used.) Mention was made of the run on ammo, the increasing demand for guns, and she emphasized that many people at the gun show were filling out the paperwork for the FBI background check. People also expressed their doubts about Obama, but a clip of Dick Durbin (D-IL) and an interview with Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) were shown in which they said that nobody was pushing for more gun control
right now. Dianne Feinstein as much as said she's biding her time, waiting for the right moment.
Omar and a female surviver of the VA Tech killings are working to "close the gun show loophole" . . . during the interview, Ms. Stahl pointed out to Omar that the VA Tech killer actually bought his guns through dealers, and DID do all the paperwork . . . at which point Omar said "But next time it happens he won't, he'll use the lookhole!!!"
I didn't sit there with a stopwatch to see whether the pro-gun or anti-gun side got more time, but, by and large, this was actual
reporting. And Dianne Sawyer ought to watch it before she gets out of journalism school to see what she
ought to be doing after graduation.