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VMI77 wrote:

Beiruty wrote:

MedicMan218 wrote:Y'all see this?
Why am I not surprised by the family's response that is the headline for this story.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/family ... kid-041012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good kid and invading and burglarizing a house? eating dirt? You decide.

Actually, the article doesn't say he was a good kid...the headline is a distortion. The statement in the article is conditional, the headline is declarative. The Uncle says "to me he was a good kid"; he's not denying his nephew did wrong or the possibility that others saw a different kid --at least by what he's quoted saying in the article. The is one of the typical ways the media manipulate stories to fit certain narratives. They know that many people merely read the headline and the first sentence or paragraph of and article, so they write a misleading headline to fit their narrative then bury the actual information they're supposedly quoting several paragraphs down in the article. Many people will therefore read this headline and come away with the notion that a "good kid" was killed, probably for little or no reason. This is a more subtle version of propaganda but serves the same effect -to condition people to believe that "good kids" are losing their lives to violence.

MedicMan218 wrote:Y'all see this?
Why am I not surprised by the family's response that is the headline for this story.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/family ... kid-041012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;