[FEL-L] SF tiger attack

[Tim Stoffel]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 10:23 -0500, GJPanthergirl at aol.com wrote:
>                             Tim & Friends,
>     One of Tim's first comments is "who knows if its really this bad"
>  I got angry yet again.  Finding out the press has exaggerated is one
>     thing but when it happens to you there is no other feeling of
>  violation.  I don't believe anything I read anymore.  Let me reword
>  that: it may be true, but I don't believe it just because I read it.
>   Why?  I've been misrepresented so many times in the U.S. papers I
>     would actually expect it.  But recently Der Spiegel in Germany
>     actually PRINTED WORDS I NEVER SAID! (not even close) and put
> quotation marks around them claiming Ms. Johnson said....   Of course
> Carol Baskin jumped all over it like she knew it as fact.  As far as I
>   know a complete misquotation like that is illegal.  But why bother
> with a magazine so far away.  The claim to have printed my 'letter to
> the editor" correcting this and demanding an apology, but it is all in
> German and by the size of the paragraph I can tell its not nearly what
>                                I said.
>  The press I believe is our worst enemy - worse than the ARAs because
>       that is where the ARAs get their ammunition from.  Had to
>                             vent...thanks,
>                            gloria johnson 

Gloria,
    A few years ago, an AR covered the dental surgery of one of our
tigers. The tiger, a white tiger, had weak lower canines, probably from
inbreeding. He probably broke his teeth playing, which he is very good
at! When the news story came out, it was entitled, 'Tiger loses teeth in
quest for freedom'. It grossly misquoted the vets who did the work (one
of who I am going to visit in a few minutes with one of my own cats, who
is sick). The zoo raised a big stink. The reporter was fired later that
day, and some background research showed she had a history of doing
this. The newspaper printed a tiny retraction the next day. However,
they did run a series of positive stories on the zoo in the next weeks.

Tim Stoffel