That Fox affiliate practiced some incredibly shoddy, context-stripping journalism and should be punished, personally, by Kathleen Hannah as the ghost of Edward R. Murrow cheers her on. But ... I think that the mother of the 8-year-old girl has every right to be angry that her daughter was exposed to such powerful images and words seemingly without explicit warning (and, no, the fact that it is a "Rock Camp" does not imply mentions of wife beating and racism, no matter what the context).
The problem I have is that the woman did not even contact the Rock Camp to ask for an explanation before calling her local Fox affiliate (and I was told by KRS that Fox did get the scoop on this). That's just sad. The fact that a mother is willing to send her child into the care of another adult that the mother has done little research on, but is unable to simply talk to that adult when she feels the proper care was not given is a symptom of a reactionary society that is ruled by fear. And, as usual, Fox is there to capitalize on that fear.
Blech! Talk to each other people! We can work it out.
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Mark Baumgarten said on August 4, 2008:
That Fox affiliate practiced some incredibly shoddy, context-stripping journalism and should be punished, personally, by Kathleen Hannah as the ghost of Edward R. Murrow cheers her on. But ... I think that the mother of the 8-year-old girl has every right to be angry that her daughter was exposed to such powerful images and words seemingly without explicit warning (and, no, the fact that it is a "Rock Camp" does not imply mentions of wife beating and racism, no matter what the context).
The problem I have is that the woman did not even contact the Rock Camp to ask for an explanation before calling her local Fox affiliate (and I was told by KRS that Fox did get the scoop on this). That's just sad. The fact that a mother is willing to send her child into the care of another adult that the mother has done little research on, but is unable to simply talk to that adult when she feels the proper care was not given is a symptom of a reactionary society that is ruled by fear. And, as usual, Fox is there to capitalize on that fear.
Blech! Talk to each other people! We can work it out.