A true journalist writes about threats to young students and their School due to KSTP and KARE

[annm4peace]

many worry about threats to Congress members.. what about the threats to the young students.

Thank goodness a journalist wrote about this injustice and unprofessional reporting.


http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/03/25/what-about-kids

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
March 25, 2010
This time it's not a parent or a teacher, but the news media who are teaching kids the wrong lesson - about politics, about protest, and about civic participation. After a negative news report by KSTP 5 and an even more negative blog post by KARE 11's Gordon Severson, Southside Family School started getting telephone and email threats. Why? Because 6th-8th grade students at the school participated in a protest against Governor Pawlenty's proposed welfare cuts.

(I love this part of Mary's article)

"As for being taught to "hate," as Severson blithely alleges - that's a far different matter than learning about social justice, or participating in a demonstration at the State Capitol.

Opposing injustice is not the same thing as hating. Hate leads people to spit on Congressional representatives and call them racist and homophobic names. Or throw bricks through windows of Democrats after the passage of health care reform. Or cut the propane line at the home of a Congressional Representative Tom Perriello's brother, after a Tea Partier erroneously posted his address online, saying it was Perriello's address.

Hate leads people to threaten the children at Southside Family School. The threats to Southside Family School and its students that came after KSTP and KARE's coverage of the demonstration are described on the school's website:"

To see the full article please go to the website.