{"id":153,"date":"2007-10-31T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-10-31T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:37:00","slug":"media-catches-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/media-catches-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Media catches up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday uncovered a few more media outlets covering the story of the eleven-year-old boy ordering his dog to attack other children.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><br \/>I won&#8217;t be so presumptious as to pretend that letters to the editors from myself and others made a difference. It&#8217;s probably just the rest of the news organizations catching up to the Toronto Star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20071030.TORBRIEFS30-2\/TPStory\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/news\/news_16269.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">City News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most detailed story to-date is, surprisingly, from the Vancouver Province (the story happened in Toronto).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/theprovince\/story.html?id=1107c5b7-3a24-4a26-9d9d-4ef5be7cfe75&#038;k=81577\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Province<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting that two of these three organizations chose to identify the dog as a German Shepherd rather than the Irish Wolfhound \/ German Shepherd mix that was reported in the original story.<\/p>\n<p>I am constantly reiterating that breed is the least important factor in dog bites. In this case, we have unsupervised children, a dog with a biting history, and a boy that decides to settle his arguments with the others by ordering his dog to attack. Clearly, breed was not the issue here.<\/p>\n<p>It still bothers me, however, when I see these inconsistencies, because it is these very media reports that politicians use to justify breed banning.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday uncovered a few more media outlets covering the story of the eleven-year-old boy ordering his dog to attack other children.I won&#8217;t be so presumptious as to pretend that letters to the editors from myself and others made a difference. It&#8217;s probably just the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","category-ontario","category-responsible-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}