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Established Newspaper Steals My Prose; Refuses to Give Proper Credit
What passes for a journalist these days barely warrants the name. For instance, take this post on the Statesman Journal website in Salem, Oregon. Not only did this “journalist” steal my blog post without my permission, she refuses to credit me as a proper source, citing my URL as nopitbullban.com instead of the proper nopitbullbans.com.…
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Debunking the Myth that Certain Dog Breeds Attack Without Warning and Other “Pit Bull” Urban Mythology
[Warning: This post contains photos of a graphic nature and should not be viewed by youths or those who are sensitive to graphic imagery.] Old-School politicos used to say that “As California goes, so goes the rest of the country.” God help us if that’s true since there is an unusually large amount of…
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“Pit Bull” Heroically Gnaws Owners Toes Off to Save His Life, Is Painted as Villain and Joke by the Media
We’ve seen a lot of people say a lot of stupid things when it comes to so-called “pit bulls,” much of it coming from the media, but in the last few days, I have never seen so many articles, and so much disinformation, about one incident that involved a “pit bull.” This time, the…
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Chicago Sun-Times Illustrates Irresponsible Media Reporting Concerning So-Called “Pit Bulls”
Update: Judging from the 5 p.m. news footage of the dogs in question, they are absolutely not the “usual suspect” breeds typically mislabeled “pit bulls.” Nor are they mastiffs, or 150 pounds. One of the dogs appears to be a 60-pound bulldog mix of some type, and the other appears to be a…