30 years ago my brother and a few of his friends were "challenged" by
a bunch of country boys one night. (He was hanging out with a bunch
of long hairs as he called it.) So they went out to meet the country
boys on a dark road. (My brothers friends were not the brightest
bulbs in the closet) Well needless to say my brother and his
friends all got jumped and beaten up with bats and other available
hardware. All of them get hauled off to the hospital where my
brother ended up with a broken nose, and the severest injury was a
concussion of one boy. (They broke every window in my brothers pickup truck)
Headlines in Newspaper next day? GANG FIGHT ERUPTS IN SOUTH SHREVEPORT!
Talk about a stretch. This was way beyond factual reporting but it
got every ones attention. We had to lock everything up around the
house and make sure nothing was left outside because they also
published addresses of everyone involved!!!
Final resolution was a couple of the other guys were charged and
convicted of assault and battery and spent time in the state pen. My
brother who was a long hair is now a Career Army Officer Lieutenant
Colonel serving in Germany his last tour.
Stewart
At 06:38 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote:
<What most reporting does is look for the hook or the grab line that
will grab every ones
attention and use it as a come on, while the full story might say
something opposite.>
The classic example of this was an 11 o'clock news teaser I saw on
one of the Baltimore TV
stations a few years ago: "Is there snow in our future? Details at
11." The answer turned
out to be "no".
(I also love that they call these blatant promos "news updates".)
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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