Cat, dog and Fishy

   I don't exaggerate when I say I've seen or heard the story at least a dozen times today about the heroic cat chasing off the dog who bit the little boy.  Something about the story submitted, allegedly, by the child's mother seems so wrong.   The camera is on the boy on his bike, then on the other side of the driveway focusing on the dog stalking the boy and eventually attacking him.  There must be more than one camera, which must be stationary cameras, for security maybe.  If the mom was watching the cameras, she could have headed off the dog, and if the boy were hurt which she would have seen when she ran over to him, why then did she run toward the porch, with her panic-filled child getting up by himself, and running after her.  People act in such awful ways that it's hard to believe anything.  The media, in its fawning pursuit of a good old human interest story, glorifies and editorializes to feed its own inflated corporate ego.  In the same vein, another of today's promoted stories was about the child who delivered her own brother at home.  Remarkable for sure, but it's not enough that the girl delivering the baby is 8 years old.  She is in media-ese reported to be "a little 8-year-old girl."   As opposed to a big 8-year-old girl?