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The media cares about one thing over anything else... money.
The news they print is selected over thousands of different stories that take place each day. What they print has to have high impact in order to sell newspapers.
It isn't so much that they hate Pit Bulls, there is more money to be made in projecting a terrifying image of them for the sake of the current controversy.
If we can provide the media with a different controversy that will sell more papers, they will report that angle instead.
I'm currently investigating actual dog bite statistics in Kitchener. I haven't yet started with Winnepeg. What I'm learning is disgusting. Kitchener has absolutely no complete data regarding Dog Bites between the years of 1995 and 2004, the period I am looking at. The only data it does have is collected for the purpose of identifying the spread of Rabies. They only ask if it was a dog that was responsible for the bite... they never ask about the breed.
What this means, is that they are only hearing about a small percentage of dog bites. Of those, they are not collecting breed-specific data.
Yet, officials in Kitchener are raving about the success of BSL. They claim specifically, "the number of Pit Bull attacks has decreased dramatically". Well, no wonder. When there are no Tigers in a city, there will be no Tiger bites either!
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