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So, how do you suppose that I knew the dogs involved were not pit bulls? Nope, no bias there.
Update: Not so fast. Aunt B. says in comments:
Did you notice, though, that there was a brief moment when “pit bulls” had killed that poor guy? The first reports that I saw all said that he’d been killed by “pit bulls” or “pit bull type dogs.” Granted, it only took about a half an hour for everyone to catch on, but dang, that makes me wonder how often we hear “pit bull” attacks that actually end up being other dogs, but the clarification never makes it to the general public.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Did you notice, though, that there was a brief moment when “pit bulls” had killed that poor guy? The first reports that I saw all said that he’d been killed by “pit bulls” or “pit bull type dogs.” Granted, it only took about a half an hour for everyone to catch on, but dang, that makes me wonder how often we hear “pit bull” attacks that actually end up being other dogs, but the clarification never makes it to the general public.
August 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
We see it happen with firearms too, Aunt B. A couple years back a co-worker caught a news story about some nut in Texas with an AK-47 shooting his son’s football coach. By the end of the day the weapon was a 45 caliber handgun.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
“but dang, that makes me wonder how often we hear “pit bull” attacks that actually end up being other dogs, but the clarification never makes it to the general public.”
In order to do that the media would have to admit that they were wrong, like that’ll ever happen.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Ask anyone about those two dogs that killed that lesbian woman in San Francisco. It made papers as a anti-gay hate crime as well as a dog bites man story.
Most people think it was Pit Bulls, but it was actually Pressa Canarios.