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#1
12-29-2007, 08:49 AM
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An example of negative favoritism
Day in and day out you can search the news for story's about the ABPT. The positive ones are few and far between.
Many people don't even bother to wonder why, they just assume all they read in the papers is true, only this breed is dangerous! (and the many who look the same) Who's fault is it? Well, the actual issue is usually the owners fault, but what the press does with any story is theirs. This is where the Negative Favoritism comes into play. Observe.... This is a story that basically wraps up the year in Texas as related to dog incidents http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=21621 Pit bulls played big part in local, national news good title huh?  What the reporter neglected to mention were the other breeds of dogs that happened to be involved in more, and more serious events. Read about it here.... http://badrap-blog.blogspot.com/2007...rget-much.html Make sure you check out the links in the list. The pattern of story telling becomes more obvious when you read about the other breeds. I notice it all the time....do you?
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#2
12-29-2007, 03:10 PM
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I notice it. In OK in the past few days, we've had some different headlines involving bull breeds. First was a family in Midwest City who is having their Bull Terriers siezed due to a local law against Pit Bulls. The second was a story about a Bull Mastiff who attacked a meter reader who came in his yard. When I talked about these stories on a local news forum, in both instances, people referred to the dogs as Pit Bulls, and I had to clarify that in fact, they were not.
I know this is not exactly what you're talking about. But it illustrates my point that when people want to see a Pit Bull, they'll see a Pit Bull. No matter what they're looking at
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#3
12-30-2007, 06:42 AM
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
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#4
12-29-2007, 03:39 PM
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Grrrrrr . . . . I've seen obvious Lab mixes labelled as "Pit dogs" by the media, animal control, etc.
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#5
12-29-2007, 08:32 PM
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Sounds like the story of Lucky....only Lucky was a registered purebred Lab in Ontario that was seized and set for destruction due to being a "Pit Bull"
 Now, if the people, the "professionals" can make this big of a mistake, I can imagine how many mistakes are made by others (reporters, police, victims...etc)
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
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#6
01-04-2008, 12:19 PM
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Like Baha said, people see what they want to see. But that's exactly why I will NEVER quit trying to educate people. If the pattern continues, not only will I lose my dogs, but so will anyone & everyone else who owns a dog with short hair, some muscular features, and weighing between 30 and 130 lbs. (Now be honest, do those criteria apply to your dog? Because that's exactly how generic some of the government definitions of a "pit bull" are in cities with BSL)
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#7
12-29-2007, 10:00 PM
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One thing I know quite well from all the years I worked in criminal defense is that the worst, most inaccurate possible testimony - aside from the cops' - is eyewitness. You get 10 eyewitnesses and you'll get 10 different stories . . . until the cops and the DA get them all together
It's the same thing with any story involving dog bites. No matter what the truth of it is, by the time witnesses, the victim, animal control, cops and the media get done with it, the story doesn't bear any remote resemblance to what actually happened.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ~Buddha Stupid is the most notoriously incurable and contagious disease known to mankind. If you find yourself in close proximity to someone infected with stupid, walk away as soon as said infection is noted. There are few things more nauseating than pure obedience. ~ Kvothe ***8206;"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." — Rumi Be a god. Know when to shut up. Good Kharma Tags Felurian
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#8
12-29-2007, 10:15 PM
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Sounds a lot like that kids game, telephone
That's why "truth" is such a funny little word. Everyone has their own version of the truth in any event, though it may be different from the truth of the person right next to you in the same situation. There's your version, my version and even Jack Sprats version of the truth. We all believe in our version or we wouldn't say it was so. But there's always the question of what is the whole truth LOL. They did a study on memory that I was delighted to watch. A group of people were exposed to a situation, then they were asked to recall the event at differing lengths of time after the situation occured. Besides each person having a different memory of what exactly happened, each persons memory of the event changed each time they were asked about it. Interesting isn't it? LOL
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
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#9
12-29-2007, 10:39 PM
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ~Buddha Stupid is the most notoriously incurable and contagious disease known to mankind. If you find yourself in close proximity to someone infected with stupid, walk away as soon as said infection is noted. There are few things more nauseating than pure obedience. ~ Kvothe ***8206;"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." — Rumi Be a god. Know when to shut up. Good Kharma Tags Felurian
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#10
12-30-2007, 06:52 AM
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
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