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12 thoughts on “Review: Five Dog Bite Fatalities Between 2017-2022 in the United States Unreported by Media

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  1. That’s so typical of the main-stream media. They are giant corporations owned by one person/family, they are only there to make money, they don’t report on the news, they create it.

  2. It certainly is more complicated than that, and we have been reporting about this issue since 2022 (see: Covid reports 2020 and 2021). Print media organizations are dying and have been for some time. Hundreds of newspapers have shut down and/or were cropped to a minuscule newsroom. The media landscape between 2015 and 2024 has greatly altered. They are now calling it an “extinction-level event“. These five deaths occurred in robust media markets, true enough, but we “imagine” that a number of non-media reported deaths also are occurring in barren media landscape regions.

    • Six companies own *every* major news outlet in the USA. That’s print, tv news, cable news, online etc. Behind them are all the major advertisers, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, International Arms Corporations, Pet Food Corporations etc.

      It’s no wonder young folks don’t trust legacy media and look for independent investigative reporters via podcasts, blogs, newsletters and streaming services.

      When we can see what’s going on in the world *live* from people’s cell phones, Operation Mockingbird is failing to influence a tech savvy generation.

      So, I’m not at all surprised that your investigations turn up the egregious coverups and deliberate ignoring of death by pitbulls.

      (Good job, Colleen)

  3. Thank you for all your usual thoroughness in this reporting, Colleen — and for simply paying attention to the issue of nonreporting.

    You will of course remember the case of 2-year-old Brice Sanders in June 2020. Fatally mauled by a pit bull in Stockton, California, where the local press did report the attack, the boy’s death went unreported in San Francisco, 63 miles away and the actual home of the boy — and I had personally contacted SF press to draw their attention to the incident. I have no explanation for such a perverse editorial decision.

    https://blog.dogsbite.org/2020/06/unreported-fatal-dog-mauling-brice-sanders-outside-bay-area.html

    • “And now, a word from our sponsor General Mills Blue Buffalo Pet food then we’ll be back for the weather report”

      That’s why, Mike 😉

  4. I’ve stumped a few pit bull fans by asking them if a pit bull’s aggression can be avoided by raising them properly, why would you ever adopt a dog whose upbringing is unknown?

  5. Apart from the media’s obvious MO of selective reporting, I would not be surprised at all if the number of unreported deaths goes way beyond what is found on this website.

    Unreported I say due to nobody getting wind of the dead since they’ve disappeared from the face of the Earth without a trace. Buried. Dumped. Digested. Dissolved. Along with any other way to ERASE the DEATH and the DEED!

    How often do we read of these utterly sociopath, deplorable owners who display not a smidgen of guilt, compassion, conscience., or whatever you want to call it…

    Try to hide the DEED!

    It should come as no surprise that they occasionally succeed in hiding the deed.

    Believe all you want that they’ll be judged someday. But here on Earth in the present, I’d bet the farm that the full extent of the deed hidden in the fields would yield a bumper crop of corpses.

    • 5000 block of N. Orangecrest.

      Like strolling thru “Grand Theft Auto- San Andreas”. Plenty of parted-out jalopies per driveway. I’d be willing to wager on which is the breeder home.

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