In Dave Cullen's book Columbine the author gives us a first-hand look at the way the press operates. They asked leading questions of students, assuming incorrectly that they knew the killers. Were they loners? Yeah? Were they outcasts? Yeah. The killers were not wearing trenchcoats, but that is what got reported. They were not gay, but that's what got reported. They were wearing baseball caps backwards. That did not get reported.
Asking leading questions is common practice by reporters, but also by other investigators. It is abominable when professionals do it when interviewing children.
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It's our whole society. Like why would you ask a poll question like "Do you like Obama?" Most Americans will say yes because we aren't a people inclined to say no I hate him or even no I dislike him. We tend to shy away from things like that. Asking leading questions just means you have an agenda to follow not an investigation to run.
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Thanks
Carli
Carli,
No, but we have sheepadoodles that will be ready the end of the summer or early fall. (Old English Sheep dog/standard poodle). Non-shedding, like labradoodles. Our last litter was the fastest selling we have ever had.
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