Response to SSAA member on assault rifle vision
ABC Television News
6 May 1998
Dear (SSAA Member)
Thank you for your correspondence regarding our coverage of crown land leases for sporting shooters.
As you point out, we showed an assault rifle in the graphic behind our newsreader. This was a mistake, and the graphic artist responsible has been told those weapons should not be linked to stories about sporting shooters.
We have been in contact with the Sporting Shooters Association to clarify the issue, and hope to arrange with them an opportunity to film sporting shooters with their legal weapons so we can show correct footage in the future when covering stories about sporting shooters.
Thank you for your interest, we trust you will remain a critical and interested viewer of ABC news.
(signed)
FIONA CRAWFORD
Executive Producer
ABC Television News
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