On Thursday’s edition of HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp and her panel continued their multipart deep-dive conversation to get to a solution for mass shootings. The day’s conversation entailed the role of the media and whether or not they were helping the situation. Included on the panel was CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter, and while he was defending media advocacy and their “humility,” he was embarrassingly schooled for it.

Stelter was the first person Cupp looked to for answers and one of her first questions was a very important one. “Do you think, that the media has been doing a good job by in large? Obviously, I showed some of the worst by in large do you think the media has done a good job covering this story,” she wondered. This question came after she played clips of MSNBC hosts saying the GOP and the NRA had blood on their hands.

“I think a lot of journalists, a lot of television anchors, a lot of reporters are trying to advocate for change. And I think you might say they are trying to advocate for more gun control,” Stelter explained, knowing Cupp was a conservative and NRA member. “I think they would say they are advocating for more safety of some form. How we are going to get to a safer world, to a safer country in this case.”

Stelter admitted that journalists were becoming greater political advocates during the first year of President Trump. But according to him, they were “advocating for truth and for decency,” and he brushed off criticism by saying it only appeared to be anti-Trump. It was interesting that he was making that claim since CNN’s gun town hall from the previous night was lacking both truth and decency.

“But what we’ve seen now is this advocating for a safer country. And from there we can debate if they’re doing it in the right way or whether they’re crossing the line,” Stelter argued.

Cupp then turned to senior producer Andy Levy, who immediately pushed back on Stelter’s assertions. “I get a little confused when anchors and journalists who have claimed a pretext to objectivity are nakedly advocating for change,” he said. “They’re not embarrassed they’re making factual errors because they are convinced their cause is just. And that is a really, really dangerous thing, to me, for a journalist to be doing.”

Podcaster Dave Smith chimed in and declared that many in the media had “exposed” themselves as gun control advocates. “I mean, on MSNBC some of the clips you see they’re out there just posting every congressman and how much money they take from the NRA. And this is on shows like Meet the Press, brought to you by Boeing,” he quipped.

“You know Brian, I’ve been saying for years, I can't name another single issue about which the media knows so little and yet is so vocal,” Cupp told Stelter as she asked if “shouldn't we have gun beat reporters?” Stelter agreed, but he bizarrely claimed we’ve seen “a lot” of “humility” from the press when it came to admitting and learning the stuff they didn’t know about guns.

Levy was taken aback by Stelter’s very generous depiction of the media and took a swipe at their ignorance. “I have to say, I have not seen a lot of this humility from the media about not knowing their stuff about guns. I think there is -- it's not that they're not embarrassed that they make factual errors, or are factually ignorant about guns, they just don't care,” he expertly pointed out.

Levy’s point was a fantastic one. Right after the shooting, ABC, CBS, and NBC all reported that the Parkland school shooting was the 18th of the year. And they also falsely claimed that the GOP and Trump passed a bill making it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns. And then their first reports were rebuked, none of them corrected their reporting.

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click expand to read: