Portland coach jailed for sex abuse

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  1. ucatchtrout

    ucatchtrout Well-Known Member

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    http://www.kptv.com/news/21621805/detail.html
     
  2. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    You gotta change that title!
     
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    MARIS61 Real American

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    Typical Fox "reporting".

    Just the headlines, no facts, imply fantastic lies you know to be untrue. Trust that your viewers are stupid enough to let their imaginations run with it.

    Accuser is NOT a youth, and NOT a player. No connection of this vague crime to the fact he is a youth coach, so why is his unrelated occupation not only part of the headline, it's really the only factual info provided by the reporter at all.

    Fox has a habit of "reporting" things they know nothing about, and they've done it again.

    I hope for the sake of our Justice System he's guilty of something, because his life is now ruined forever, guilty or not.
     
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    Paxil Active Member

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    I have to admit... that was a damn confusing article. The headline certainly does make you think it involved a kid... it says authorities are tight-lipped... then lists the charges... then says they would not comment on the details... then in the next sentence comments on the details. Good grief. I go to Hawthorne Farms which is a sister club of Riverside... and was looking at signing my kid up for the basketball lessons last week.

     
  5. BLAZER PROPHET

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    I may not go as far as you, but I can tell you from personal experience that the local Fox network delights in doing real hack jobs on people and also makes it a direct point to never come back and straighten things out when their stories are proven wrong.
     
  6. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    The third freaking paragraph says very clearly "Prosecutor Greg Horner would not comment on the details of the case. He said the crimes have nothing to do with Memory's capacity as a youth basketball coach and the case does not involve any underage people."

    Where are the lies?
     
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    PapaG Banned User BANNED

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    You expect people to read until the third paragraph? You give the average person a lot more credit than I give them. MARIS seems like a headline skimmer to me. He probably loves the AP, because they never mislead the reader in their headlines. :lol:
     
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