CaptainMarvelous said:
Speaking of Media Biaaaas, the kid's automatically a bully? You decry assuming he was hurt by the assault but naturally a 6-year-old says he felt like he was a bully so he MUST be one? You seem as guilty as anyone of spinning it to fit your facts with the assumption the teacher is in the right. Further more, one of your arguments is founded on how 6 years olds don't/can't hit someone properly, so the bully was using his great 6 year old MIND to victimise them?
But that's why I used the word bully only after the qualifier of 'my guess would be'. We don't have all the facts, so we can only guess.
and my assumption wasn't that the teacher was in the right(i even said unprofessional and shouldn't have been done), it was the news articles like sensationalising stories and everyone should be aware of media bias.
(Also, hitting and bulling are two separate things
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and not quite, the analysis was that most 6 year olds in a class room are non-confrontational[confirmed by some not even wanting to take part] and so that's likely where the 'hit harder'/24 hits bit came from, and why no injuries were mentioned. it was all about discussing the media bais rather than the actually subject like I probably should be doing in this thread XD)
using the article itself where the mum says she never heard her son was a bully, that seemed like EXACTLY the sort of thing someone would mention if they were, say, attempting to defend their school "We sent complaints home" and such. Of course, she could be lying but then it seems like an easy one to refute and I can't seem to find any version of the story where he's a confirmed bully.
They don't have anything in there form either of the teachers who were involved in the incident, so how would we know? It barely mentions anything from the school, asides from that cropped bit at the end (also, school policy on this sort of stuff, from experience,
usually has parents being called as a last resort. Teacher's like working with the children, they don't generally want to get their parents involved unless it becomes a major issue.)
See that's what I'm saying, you're being given a very one sided story, very selectively cropped so that it says exactly what the media wants you to see. Thus my post trying to strip away some of this framing and get to the core of this incident. However, unless we can see more information, you're just going to have to make a value judgement on the reliability of the source and use your own knowledge and understanding to refine it as best you can. (which is what I was trying to give an example of. You know, get people thinking
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Though I admit, intentionally or not, this post IS a good example of media bias XD
I don't think 'media bias' means what you think it means :X (Since by definition I cannot be an example of media bias. Well, unless I become a journalist and start working for the mass media). So yeah, I think you just mean regular 'bias', to which I wholeheartedly agree I'm fairly bias against media bias. ((I'm actually entirely neutral towards this teacher bully thing cause I don't actually care much about the incident XD thus why I was all like:
"BUT HEY LOOK GUYS, isn't media bias interesting, lets discuss that!... what? oh yeah and i guess teacher was in the wrong. But media bias kgo!"
I just used this story as an example of something I could unwrap a little to straighten out the spin they've put on it. Actually, I guess it's pretty off topic to do that. Maybe if I can be bothered I'll make a proper media bias thread so I stop junking up this one XD).
