NPR: Ohioans feeling the economic pinch

It's opposite day, Dexter.

Perhaps you'll feel better to know that a AP story that moved yesterday reported that whites make -- on average -- 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times what Hispanics make in this country.

 

Three pitbulls are definitely a pathway to success. NPR nailed this one.

 

The story itself, as someone noted, is a cautionary tale of the horrors that can result from bad decisions and the lack of solid parental influence.

I have no problem with the story. But the headline makes it seem like something different. It wants to make it a tale of redemption when the redemption has yet to occur.

That's the spin Poindexter is pointing out.

 

Laura wants to leave the unemployed father, but now wants to marry him. But he's in jail.

Definitely going to break the cycle of failure.

 

Yeah, especially with three pitbulls, and two little kids ages 3 and 4.

Methinks we'll be reading about a child being mauled by a pitbull in San Bernadino, followed by "Joseph" saying that he thought the dogs were "trained."

 

I can agree about the headline. Problem is, Dexter keeps on spinnin.'

 

Horseshit headline and horseshit writing.
This mirrors the national figures which show that 41 percent of Latinas drop out of school because they get pregnant.

Seriously? 41% of latinas drop out of school because they get pregnant?

NPR needs to stop the cycle of crappy writing.

 

It sounded better on the radio. Though it's not clear whether supposedly 41 percent of all Latinas drop out of school or whether 41 percent of all Latina dropouts are Hispanic.

 

Dexter, it is National Public Radio, so I would expect that they would be much better at producing radio stories than writing headlines and shooting photos.

Those things aren't exactly in their wheelhouse.

 

If NPR is going to do those things, do them right or GTFO.

 

Soooo... the thing we should focus our anger on here isn't desperate poverty and a cycle of failure, but whether somebody at NPR wrote an innacurate headline.

I'm beginning to grasp why this country is so fucked up.