A Classic Example Of Misinformation!!

Local News Station Apologizes for Misrepresenting Child as Future Criminal

Chicago CBS Affiliate WBBM Has Issued an Apology After Taking the Comments of a Four-Year-Old Child Out of Context About a Shooting in The Area. The Child Tells a Reporter That the Shootings Don’t Scare Him and That, When He Grows Up, “I’m Going to Have Me A Gun.” This Makes the Child Seem to Aspire to Commit Shootings Himself, But It Was Taken Out of Context, The Boy Expected to Have a Gun Because He Wants to Be a Police Officer.

It Didn’t Take Long for The WBBM To Respond, And Immediately Apologize:

"We Accept Responsibility for The Mistakes That Were Made, Both in The Reporting and Editing of The Story. The Video of The Child Should Not Have Aired. As Soon as News Management Identified the Problem, They Took Immediate Steps to Ensure That the Video Would Not Air in Subsequent Newscasts. In Addition, We Have Followed Up with Our Employees to Make Sure That We All Have Learned from The Mistakes That Were Made."

Date Aired: July 2011

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