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Home Schooling Spokesman: CBS Pre-Planned Negative Slant
Jim Brown

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Agape Press

There is more fallout from a controversial two-part report on
home schooling, produced by the CBS Evening News.

During Monday's "Eye on America" segment, CBS reporter
Vince Gonzales cited a murder-suicide involving three
teenagers in rural North Carolina as proof of what the network
refers to as a "dark side" to home schooling. In that tragic case,
the children's parents had been under investigation for abuse
and neglect and were not abiding by the state's home school
law.

But Hal Young, president of North Carolinians for Home
Education (nche.com), says CBS News overlooked certain
important facts in its coverage of the story. According to Young,
if parents commit monstrous acts against a child, there are
laws in place to deal with that situation. He says educational
regulation is not meant to be a tool for social services or for
dealing with criminal activity.


"By highlighting criminal cases that supposedly had a
connection to home educators, CBS News is trying to create
a linkage there to adapt the laws, adapt the regulations, to
do something they are not intended to do," he says.

Young was interviewed for the "Eye on America" news report.
During that interview, he says, the reporters went over the
same questions several times, and it became apparent that
CBS had only one objective in producing the report: to portray
home education as a haven for potential child abusers and
worse.

"When they came to speak with me, I think they already had
their story planned and outlined. I'd have to say it was
obvious where the story was going," the home education
advocate says, adding, "I believe CBS already had a plan
in mind, and their contact with us was mainly to gather a
few sound bites."

The CBS Evening News, which is hosted by veteran news
anchor Dan Rather, has several high-profile sponsors,
including Cingular Wireless, Honda, Arby's, Philip Morris,
and Wal-Mart. Young says in order to hold the network to a
higher standard of journalistic integrity, families and
individuals should contact CBS, its affiliates, and advertisers
to express their concerns about the CBS Evening News
and its anti-home-schooling coverage.

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H B

Does anyone think that maybe CBS aired that bit about homeschooling to help the legislation that is currently before Congress?

Just a thought I'm floating out there....

Holly


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