Friday, December 17, 2010

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Foster care in Los Angeles: The price of panic

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Foster care in Los Angeles: The price of panic: "This story from the Los Angeles Times offers one small example, one “little picture” as one of my journalism professors liked to say, of what happens when bad reporting manages to terrify an entire county agency.  By bad reporting, I am not referring to this particular story.

Here’s the lead:

A Great Dane snatched a 6-month-old baby from her mother's arms in Monrovia and ran with the girl in his mouth before dropping her in the street, authorities said Wednesday."

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