Read the article from yesterday's blog.
According to my friend who lives here, the media in that article did not write the following: The young boy slammed rocks and stones at the dogs to get to the puppies that the mother dog had hidden.
This is of course not an excuse, but one more explanation to what happened that the media didn't fully cover.
Also the German tourist had thrown something to eat and didn't have enough for all the hungry dogs. She became afraid when one of them got too "close" and started running. Of course, that triggered the dogs' reaction.
Once again, not an excuse but an explanation of what made these dogs do what they did and it turned out to be a big tragedy. Understanding the animals will go a long way to avoiding such incidents. Their behavior is not irrational, when you understand it and can see from their perspective, it is actually quite rational indeed.
6 comments:
Why does the media always "forget" to write the whole thruth?
Christine Skanor
I wonder the same thing... in many cases media forgets to tell details that are crusial to understand what and how things happened. Sometimes I wish there would be a newspaper that would tell the WHOLE truth behind big media cases...there isn´t any media you can trust in nowadays :(
Bella
Why is not the Swedish newspaper writing about your work....why can we not be proud over our own people?
Liza
Good point. It remainds me when SAS back in the Sarajevo time 2001 didnt want to write about AWL. "We want happy travelers" they said.
Well AWL are making happy things for unhappy unhealthy animals...that should make the readers happy :-)
There are several reasons for not reporting such information.
Sometimes, the story has be edited down to fit the available space... so details get cut out. Bad editing by the paper.
The other reason is editorial biases. The reporter may have written a balanced, all inclusive story, but the editor of the paper has biases and cuts certain things out. This happens a lot in political reporting.
Either way, the result is the same.
You sound like a media "boy", or so you have a big foot inside the news ;-)
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