Dallas - Homeowner kills burglary supsect
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The next time the other two break into someone's home they will have a gun and shoot the home owner. That is the lesson these two idiots learned.
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Note also, the article uses the active voice when referring to the home owner and the passive voice when referring to the criminals --as in:10mmillie wrote:I hate the media. Calling them youngsters and Middle school students. How about calling them what they are? Criminals. Glad the homeowner didn't hesitate.
The use of the passive voice here, whether originated by the school or the media, suggests a natural or accidental death, or in other words, has the effect of dismissing any responsibility for student in his own death; whereas the active voice applied to the home owner makes him entirely responsible for a "killing." The home owner "killed" and the student "died," instead of a student was killed breaking into someone's home. You'd think the school would want to discourage other kids from taking the same path, but apparently the politics are more important than the kids.The school sent a letter home Monday afternoon letting parents know a student had died.
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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;
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;
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A neighborhood lady resident says that there are always truant students walking through
her neighborhood during school hours. Although the school system has truancy officers, there
are so many kids skipping classes that they can't keep up with the workload.
The homeowner's teenage (unknown what teen age) son was on the phone with 911 during the
breaking of the door and the shot(s) were caught on tape.
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her neighborhood during school hours. Although the school system has truancy officers, there
are so many kids skipping classes that they can't keep up with the workload.
The homeowner's teenage (unknown what teen age) son was on the phone with 911 during the
breaking of the door and the shot(s) were caught on tape.
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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.
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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.
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Exactly what Bradely bunch and southern poverty folks preach. Twist and spin bad news.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.
Beiruty,
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