I have never seen a more biased and opinionated story in the Metro section than the one I read from the Sunday Sept. 2nd edition of the Dallas Morning News. The story entitled “Life’s full of chutes, ladders” by Steve Blow discussed Blow’s opinion on how children learn life lessons. He compares actions to chutes (unfortunate or bad happenings/ decisions) and ladders (fortunate or good happenings/decisions).
The part that struck me as the most opinionated was as follows:
“As a parent, your work would be mostly done if you could just teach your child to pause before an action and ask: ‘Chute? Ladder?’ Some are obvious. Ditching school? A definite chute. Turning off the TV and tackling that dreaded homework. A dutiful ladder. Others are harder to gauge at first. Attention from the popular kids at school? Ladder! Smirnoff Ice in the parking lot with the popular kids? Oh, cute. Some start so small. Tiny tattoo on the hip? More cute than chute….”
I think Blow went way too far when he labeled those who get tattoos. He is also being very stereotypical when he assumes that the popular kids drink alcohol underage.
I think this story is a prime example of a journalist injecting opinion into his writing. It really makes the story completely invalid in my mind and I cannot even concentrate on the author’s point because I am too distracted by his opinions.
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