Reply #45: while i grant that ther is anecdotal evidence

[frogcycle]

of the knee-jerk use of "pit bull" by inflammatory reporters, can you substantiate the statement that it is "most" reports?

Most of the reports that get widespread attention are the truly horrific ones where someone gets killed. They get follow-up with lawsuits and such, and I don't recall hearing of a correction. But I might not have been paying attention.

Maybe there are a lot of spurious "minor" attacks like this one (which, I agree, got circulated because of the "grandma" line) that are misidentifications that never get corrected - or maybe the corrections are buried away, as you say. But do you have hard data?

Hey, maybe it will turn out to have been a wolf and the grandchild was really Little Red... nahhhh.